When is a cute educational TV show featuring a bunny who visits
different families all over the United States actually an insidious
plot to burn American morality to the ground?
In the wake of the SpongeBob debacle education secretary Margaret
Spelling pressured PBS to pull an episode of the popular show
"Postcards from Buster" http://pbskids.org/buster/ last week, not
because Buster was committing the heinous crime of learning how maple
syrup is harvested, but because the people teaching Buster about maple
syrup were a lesbian couple and their children.
Gasp.
Spelling wrote, "Many parents would not want their young children
exposed to the lifestyles portrayed in the episode."
Um, what about lesbian parents?
I'm pretty sure they pay taxes too.
Still, I guess Margaret Spelling knows best - she can obviously tell
what "many parents" think, and therefore can dictate what everyone
else can and can't see based on that.
Score one for... um... big government.
From The Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
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