US Wingnuts attack SpongeBob

The BBC reports -

US conservative groups are up in arms over a music video featuring children's TV heroes such as the cheerful cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants.

Focus on the Family and other groups say the video - a remake of the Sister Sledge hit, We Are Family - is a vehicle for pro-gay propaganda.

The video's makers plan to mail it to US schools in the spring to promote tolerance and diversity.

I thought "you've got to be kidding me", but alas, no, the wingnuts are actually serious.

"We see the video as an insidious means by which the organisation is manipulating and potentially brainwashing kids," Paul Batura, a spokesman for Focus on the Family, told the New York Times.

I will leave the last word to Mark Barandeso, spokesman for the We Are Family Foundation who released the video to help teach children the values of co-operation and unity, who said that anyone who thought the video promoted homosexuality -

"needs to visit their doctor and get their medication increased".