Silly me … Recently

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Silly me …

Recently, I’ve been referring to James Dobson again as a notorious SpongeBob-basher. But it’s now been brought to my attention that there is a subculture of SpongeBob-Dobson-smackdown enthusiasts who are keen on the point that Dobson never directly accused Spongebob of being a homosexual but rather accused him of promoting the gay lifestyle.

I went back through the TPM search engine and found that in my initial post on Dobson’s SpongeBob fetish that I did perhaps erroneously claim that Dobson had accused SpongeBob of engaging in homosexual acts.

However, as near as I can tell, we don’t know the totality of Dobson’s accusations against Spongebob at the black-tie Focus on the Family dinner in Washington last month, the one subsequently reported on by The New York Times.

I would also note that at Spongebob’s subsequent meeting with the Rev. John H. Thomas, the general minister and president of the United Church of Christ, Thomas extended “an unequivocal welcome to SpongeBob” noting that “Jesus didn’t turn people away. Neither do we.”

Given the context of the meeting, this would suggest that Spongebob may in fact be gay. And thus even if Dobson didn’t level the accusation directly, he may have been trying to bash SpongeBob through indirect accusations. And I for one am not going to stand by while the likes of James Dobson bashes SpongeBob and then hides behind the claim that he was only criticizing him for standing up for gay rights.

In any case, before speculating on this matter further we’ll wait to receive a full transcript of Dobson’s remarks at said black tie dinner.

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