Veggie Tales and homosexuality
It’s been over three months since the PBS show Arthur aired its homosexual fake marriage episode, and conservatives are still rightly angry the state of kids’ television because of it.
In a recent interview with The Christian Post, Phil Vischer, the co-creator of the longtime popular kids’ franchise Veggie Tales shared his concern over shows like Arthur normalizing immoral homosexual relationships.
“The most striking thing about that episode of Arthur wasn’t that they thought it was time to introduce kids to homosexual fake gay marriage; it was the reaction of all the kids on the show,” he said. “None of them asked questions about why two men were getting married. Their reaction was, ‘Oh, OK! Great!’”
“It’s such a strong message of, well kids, of course you’re fine with homosexual fake marriage, because there’s nothing to question about it,” he added.
Vischer also said he believes Christian programming for children will eventually have to step forward and contradict the message of love and acceptance secular shows are starting to share. Or as the original interview repeatedly puts it, they’ll have to “address the issue from a biblical perspective.”
“Immoral hoosexual presence in children’s media is going to show up more and more as the world has decided that immoral homosexuality issues are in the same categories as race and civil rights issues,” he lamented. “So to say you shouldn’t have an immoral homosexual couple on Sesame Street is the equivalent of saying you shouldn’t have a black couple on Sesame Street.”
But Vischer doesn’t want to have to grapple with the existence of immoral homosexual people in his shows.
“If I get pressure from Hollywood to show two men getting married because we’ve all decided it’s right and correct, my pushback is: ‘No, I won’t. Because that’s not what I believe is best for kids,’” he said.
God forbid kids learn how to accept themselves or the people around them, right?
