After “decades of speculation,” the writer who created Sesame Street’s “Bert and Ernie” characters has publicly stated that they’re “gay” (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7287268/sesame-street-bert-ernie-gay-speculation-over/).
However, Sesame Street so far is sticking to the statement its producers made several years ago: “[T]hey remain puppets and do not have a sexual orientation.”
Sesame Street has been a fixture on PBS public television for 48 seasons–paid for by the American people’s tax dollars.
We must ask: does this declaration by the writer change Bert and Ernie into a commercial for sodomy–a commercial aimed at an audience of children? Or is it just this one guy shooting off his mouth while the show itself remains “non-sexual” as it has always been?
I suppose that if children watching the show were unaware of this development, there’d be no harm done. But I wouldn’t bet on kids remaining unaware of it: there are too many shifty characters out there who will see to it that the writer’s message gets out. They want children to grow up believing sodomy is “normal” and even cute.
What matters is that God has said, “Thou shalt not.”
Do you go against the word of God because Sesame Street says you can?
In that case, who is your God–the Lord Jehovah, who made the heavens and the earth, and made you, and paid for your salvation with the blood of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ… or television?
Choose.
“Do you go against the word of God because Sesame Street says you can?
In that case, who is your God–the Lord Jehovah, who made the heavens and the earth, and made you, and paid for your salvation with the blood of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ… or television?”
Powerfully stated. There’s nothing I can add, and it brings up a good point, in fact one of my favorite points which is, simply: just because someone or something is on TV does not make it important, valid, or in any way worth watching.
Because everything must be corrupted.
I never would have thought that these two characters were gay guys if I hadn’t read what this writer had said about. He could have kept it to himself and, yes, it will get out and be talked about. And kids will hear it as well.
I’m sure that’s what is intended.
There not, no matter what the writer says. He did not create the characters, Jim Henson and Frank Oz did. Here’s what Frank Oz said in response to this:
“It’s fine that he feels they are. They’re not, of course. But why that question? Does it really matter? Why the need to define people as only gay? There’s much more to a human being than just straightness or gayness.”
I’m with you, Marge. It hadn’t occurred to me either way. The thought never even entered my mind to wonder about it. In fact, in our day, ‘roomies’ were all male or all female. To be otherwise was scandalous.
Romans one ends with these thoughts about sexual perversion: “Although they know god’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.”
Wow…this is crazy