Focus on the "Family" and the American "Family" Association have a new target in their never-ending war on gays: Spongebob Squarepants. Yes, they're bound and determined to oppose a cartoon sponge. James Dobson told the guests at a formal dinner to celebrate the election results that the cartoon sponge had been enlisted in a "pro-homosexual video" that was planned to be mailed to thousands of elementary schools promoting a "tolerance pledge" that included a reference to "sexual identity."

Now this is where a normal person might start to question assumptions. A cartoon sponge? Elementary schools? Sexual identity? Elementary school kids, at least when I was a boy, don't even know what "sexual identity" is, let alone know enough about it to pledge to be tolerant of it.

But Dobson and crew, as we know, are not normal people. It turns out that his gang confused the makers of the video featuring the cartoon sponge, known as the We Are Family Foundation, with another organization called "We Are Family," which supports gay youth. We Are Family Foundation founder Nile Rodgers (who wrote the disco tune "We are Family") said the video "is intended to help teach children the values of co-operation and unity." Nothing in the video mentions sexual identity.

There is a copy of tolerance.org's tolerance pledge on the We Are Family Foundation's web site, but it does not appear in the video.

When informed of their error, Focus on the Family spokesman Paul Batura stuck to his story, despite its obvious falsehood, and said "We see the video as an insidious means by which the organization is manipulating and potentially brainwashing kids."

Yeah, they're brainwashing kids to make them homosexuals using a video of a disco song featuring, among others, a cartoon sponge. A cartoon sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea is going to make your kids gay.

WAFF lawyer Mark Barondeso said, and we certainly agree, that anyone who thought the video promoted homosexuality "needs to visit their doctor and get their medication increased."

---Nick

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