SpongeBob and Friends: Splendor in the Kelp

[alarimer]

I saw this article in the LA Times and just had to laugh. The ocean is one kinky place, what with all the hermaphroditism and all! Don't get me started on mass spawning events, like some kind of fish orgy! Where is the outrage????


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.

Life in the sea, in fact, is largely about reproduction, not traditional family values.


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http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-helvarg26jan26,1,7600221.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

[Ian David]

1. I hope they do a Spongebob episode that lampoons Dobson

That would be awesome :)

Plankton goes on a crusade against Goofy Goober or whatever his name is, claiming he promotes "an air-breathing agenda."