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Fred and Barney should be banned because they are virtually inseparable, are never seen wearing pants and live together in the suggestively-named town of Bedrock, complains a conservative activist

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6934878/site/newsweek/

Andy Borowitz
Newsweek


Feb. 8 - The ongoing campaign against alleged gay icons in animated cartoons continued today as a newly formed conservative group demanded that television stations stop broadcasting "The Flintstones" at once.

Harland Devane, leader of the group Focus on the Flintstones, said at a press conference in Washington, D.C. today that his organization was issuing the demand because, "Quite simply, everything about 'The Flintstones' is way too gay."

The conservative activist distributed a memo itemizing over 50 ways in which the self-styled "modern Stone Age family" series promotes homosexuality, but left little doubt that most of his concerns centered on the relationship between the two main characters, Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble.

"Their relationship is more flagrantly homosexual than anything in Oliver Stone's 'Alexander,'" Devane said.

He pointed out that Fred and Barney are virtually inseparable, are never seen wearing pants and live together in the suggestively-named town of Bedrock.

He also noted that the two men work together at a quarry wearing hard hats and construction garb, an oblique reference to the construction worker in the classic disco band "The Village People."

"Do I believe they are gay icons?" Mr. Devane said. "I abba-dabba-do."

He added that Focus on the Flintstones' efforts will not stop at banning the cartoon series from U.S. television stations, telling reporters that the group is also "taking a close look" at Flintstone-related consumer products such as Flintstone vitamins and cereal.

"We are very uncomfortable with Fruity Pebbles," he said.

Elsewhere, President Bush announced a budget of $2.57 trillion, most of which will go to paying for last month's inauguration.

© 2005 Newsweek, Inc.

Cassiusnote: Fruity pebbles, rofl!

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troublemaker_42

Ok, I could deal with the controversy concerning ther Teletubbies awhile back, because frankly, I just didn't get that show's appeal..But now Spongebob and the Flinstones??? NO!!!!!!! I won't stand for it!!! At this rate I'm not going to have ANYTHING to watch when i get home from work!!!! I grew up watching the Flintstones, and I personally don't think I'm any less straight because of it. Next, someone is going to claim that the Flintstones vitamin have a secret "gay" ingrediant!

DonkeyPunch

In my opinion, the much more severe and immediate thread is neither Fred nor Barney. The Great Gazoo is clearly the true danger to the heterosexual hearts and minds of our opposite-sex-loving progeny. He just floats about, is always neat and witty, uses cute pet names for those he talks to, and is clearly a fairy. We must stop this monster before all our kids start listening to Streisand and choosing fashion over football!

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Higher Logic

Good point, DP! And seriously, I guess Freud was right about these types of people, they must have something to hide...some deep repressed feelings of homosexuality and they are simply repressing them.

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teufelfisch

This has got to be a joke. I mean, it's obviously a stab at the conservatives who think Spongebob is gay, right?

...right??

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Buzzby

I'm deeply concerned that youthful TV viewers will become cartoonsexuals. They'll be aroused only by two dimensional colored images of non-human species. This may be the end of the human race, as birth rates fall off and males and females finally realize that they have nothing in common.

This is a disaster of truly Biblical proportions!

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MickityMike

Yeah, dude, it's a joke.

And I'm not positive, but I think that the Spongebob Square Pants! thing might have been misrepresented by the Times. Turns out, Focus on the Family didn't say that Spongebob was gay; apparently they were concerned about a video shown to kids featuring Spongebob that encouraged children to be tolerant of homosexuality. So I don't think that they ever thought Spongie was getting it on with Patrick as much as they just didn't like that children were being taught...tolerance. *sigh*

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Higher Logic

The SB thing definately wasn't a joke. I remember hearing a couple years back that certain groups thought he was gay, it's nothing new. I mean Jesus, how could that be a joke too, look what they did with the TT.

Hiz Highness

Is looking for 'gayness' in cartoons an actual job . . . or do these people waste their free time doing this?

-HH

^_^truth

I see you stumbled upon those websites too . And yes, I'll admit it some of them are pretty freaking hot!

But moving on...

How can the Flintstones be gay? Weren't they the first television family that featured the wife and husband in the same bed? It just doesn't seem to make sense to me...but then again anytime people freak out over cartoons it doesn't make sense to me...maybe I am excessivly tolerant? Nah that can't be it...

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