SpongeBob and Friends: Splendor in the Kelp

[realFedUp]

:-)

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-helvarg26jan26,1,3192035.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

SpongeBob and Friends: Splendor in the Kelp
David Helvarg

Under the waves, the teeming ocean is one kinky place.

David Helvarg is president of the Blue Frontier Campaign, editor of the Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide (Island Press, 2005) and author of "Blue Frontier -- Saving America's Living Seas" (Sierra

January 26, 2005

James Dobson of Focus on the Family has tossed a new harpoon in the culture wars, claiming that SpongeBob SquarePants is being used to promote a homosexual agenda. He doesn't know the half of it.

When it comes to sex outside of marriage, the oceans that cover 71% of our planet are rife with reproductive strategies and behaviors that would make Caligula, or even Bill Clinton, blush.

SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg, who has a background in marine biology, had to be aware that in creating a cartoon sponge he'd be opening himself up to charge of marine-based immorality. Sponges can reproduce asexually, for example. And if Dobson's followers don't object to that, I'm sure they'll be distressed to learn that they also can be hermaphrodites. Single sponges not only produce both sperm and eggs but are broadcast spawners, indiscriminately releasing sperm in such profusion as to turn seawater smoky white.

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[LincolnMcGrath]

1. Broadcast spawners!

Aren't we all? :wow:

[realFedUp]

3. lol

and a lot of asexual too...:-)

[H2O Man]

2. Sometimes I imagine ....

republicans thinking, "How can we keep democrats distracted from serious issues, and make them look silly? Hey! I've got it! Let's attack a cartoon! The democrats will fall for it!"

[realFedUp]

4. republicans think?

I'm waiting for the Big Voice to call
down and say "Are you shittin' me?"

[H2O Man]

5. Ha-ha!

36 American kids died today in Iraq. An unknown number of Iraqis have died today. I think the Big Voice might prefer we let children watch Sponge Bob, and that adults in America step up and stop the immoral Bush/Cheney violence.