Is Barney gay?

Is Barney gay?

Anyone who has taken cared of a child would have come across Barney, the purple dinosaur. You will have seen him in various audio and video cds. I receive many of those cds during my own two kids birthdays. They seem harmless enough. The songs are very catchy and kids find it easy to follow the tunes. In fact, my 1-year old’s favorite morning exercise is dancing to Barney and Friends.

Sometime ago, someone told me that Barney was not good for my son. I was told that Barney was gay and somehow was promoting being gay through his tv shows. My immediate reaction was alarm (that someone is a friend after all). Alarm that such a show would be used to promote something that could be confusing to a 2 year old. But then, I said really? I wasn’t sure because a lot of other parents I knew had Barney in their homes and on their tv and I never heard them say they knew him to be gay.

So I surfed the net and discovered how Barney has come to be tagged as gay.

In a new video to be distributed to 61,000 schools across the nation, homosexual activists are using popular children’s TV characters such as SpongeBob SquarePants and Barney the dinosaur to surreptitiously indoctrinate young children into their lifestyle, a pro-family activist group charges. Based on the 1970s hit song “We Are Family,” the video will be distributed to public and private elementary schools nationwide March 11, along with lesson plans for teachers. American Family Association researcher Ed Vitagliano sees the project as an “open door” to a secondary discussion of homosexuality, noting the the foundation has a “tolerance pledge” on its website that children and others are encouraged to sign, which includes sexual orientation.

Source: www.worldnetdaily.com

I looked at the website and could not find anything specific that pertains to homosexuality or anything similar. The site indicates that the foundation aims to educate people to appreciate cultural diversity. And I guess that is where the buzz about the promotion of homosexuality came from.

The buzz was started 2 years ago. What is left is some sort of conclusion that Barney is gay (the color purple doesn’t help).

Regardless, my kids love Barney and Friends. I watch the show with my kids and as long as I do not see anything wrong with the content and material - the cds will remain my kids’ favorite.

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my son loves barney, regardless of his color or gender, i won’t discriminate him. the values he teaches are those that are important.

hi — i just wrote a post about tinky winky being tagged as gay — just coz he’s purple with a magic handbag.. hay, those people rather focus on those toy manufacturers who make unsuitable toys for kids!!!

Hi,

I had a blast reading this. Yeah, I’ve heard all about this Barney-gay thing. Must be because of the way he dances… (just kidding). I also heard of Ernie-Bert’s (Sesame Street) homosexual relationship.

Personally, I have no problem with them being pictured as gay. My opposition is to the tone of discrimination when people say they are. If people can’t spare the children of discriminatory views, then they should stop telling parents (or kids) that Barney, Spongebob and Jollibbee are gay. They should just let the kids enjoy their songs and dances which is what these characters are all about in the first place.

we also have lots of barney cds at home and my daughter just loves him/her (whatever) to death. the songs they sing also has some values about family and friendships which i think is more important.

issai - I agree and I don’t discriminate as well. My kids learned to sing and dance from his CDs and they love him.

raqgold - Oo nga! Its a good thing my kids are into cars and books and not into fisher price toys.

Ami - I heard about that Ernie-Bert thing too! Same with Spongebob and Patrick. Hehe. The thing is with all these news about them being gay and the whole ruckus it has caused, children will now ask why. And that may be a difficult concept to make a young child understand.

Mhalou - May collection na kami ng CD dito sa bahay. And I think his shows are more educational than most are.

I heard about this a few years ago from my sister. She was cautioning me from having my daughter watch Barney. The same was said of “The Wiggles”.

Personally, I don’t care about their sexual orientation. Anubayan? Pati ba naman mga characters pinapatulan na!

Kongkong622 - That’s right. There are others like Spongebob that have been tagged gay as well. Kids characters na nga lang to e. Its not really about being tagged as gay but the way malice has been infused into these kid shows when the news first broke out.

[...] let my two sons watch Dora the Explorer because of the rumors that I had heard that were similar to what was said about Barney the purple dinosaur. But in the end I disregarded the rumors and now I am reaping the benefits.. well my sons are at [...]

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