SpongeBob Outed?
January 27, 2005
Children's cartoon favorite Spongebob Squarepants is the latest cultural icon to draw the ire of the American Taliban. Identified as an agent of the gay agenda by Focus on the Family's James Dobson, Spongebob joins Rick Santorum's dogs and John Cornyn's box turtles as a threat to the American family.
What is it about Spongebob that drives these imams of intolerance into a rage? One easy answer is projection: Dobson et al perhaps cannot come to grips with their homo-erotic attraction to Spongebob and shrimping with his band of chum guzzlers. After all, he is a sponge - maybe it's all those holes...
