In their never ending quest to rid the world of all things secular the Republicans how now decided to axe Big Bird and his friends on Sesame Street, as well as Reading Rainbow.
See, what that does is leave you with only a few options like Veggie Tales, so that our kids will be forced to listen to the Church espouse the love of Jesus Christ. Oh, and while your their; you should hate non-believers, muslims and gays. You should own many guns and use them on abortion clinic doctors. And anyone who doesn't believe the gospel should be shunned, converted or killed.
Frankly, because I have a young kid I would gladly pay a reasonably monthly fee to keep Big Bird on private air if that's what it takes. I grew up on Sesame Street. Megan loves it and rightly so. In addition to teaching the alphabet and numbers, it teaches real American values like tolerance and peace. The only values I hear from the Christian right is hate and intolerance. As the bumper sticker says, "Hate is Not a Family Value."
Posted by jherr at June 10, 2005 07:58 AMMy kids love Sesame Street - just like I did when I was a kid.
Posted by: Jacqueline at June 13, 2005 05:49 AMOk, perhaps you should fight to keep your Republican dogs off of it then.
Posted by: jherr at June 13, 2005 09:48 AMAs with embryonic stem cell research, it's about the Federal funding. I'm sure there are enough parents/teachers/artists in the private sector who would never allow Big Bird to become extinct.
Posted by: Jacqueline at June 13, 2005 12:11 PMThere are some things that the Federal government should do. Provide basic education and public television programming is part of that. Why? Because we know from history that when the private sector (e.g. the community and the church) is charged with education then we have a bad outcome. For example, women not being educated because that is against the doctorine of the church.
Only through public education have we been able to get to the literacy and educational rates we have. And if you think they are bad, then I agree, but they are far better than what we had before.
Actually your comparison to stem cell research is skewed. We are funding research because that's how we go forward with basic science that is inherintely not profitable. The stem cell exception is a ban based solely on the personally held beliefs of a single human, our President. A personally held belief that the majority of us do not agree with. That ban is un-democractic, in that a single individual has rule of 290M without a check or balance.
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