Should Sesame Street‘s Bert & Ernie Get Married?
Sunny Day
Sweepin’ the clouds away
On my way to where the air is sweet
Can you tell me how to get,
How to get to Divorce Court?
Well they’ll have to get married first but if Change.org has anything to say about it, puppets Bert and Ernie will be walking down the aisle very soon. A petition started by Lair Scott, and with 8, 215 signatures and counting, is calling for the producers of Sesame Street to force longtime roommates and rubber-ducky enthusiasts out of the closet. The petition reads:
“In this horrific age of LGBT kids taking their own lives, they need to know that they ARE BEAUTIFUL and their lives are worth living. Aside from those that are committing suicide, the bullies that facilitate these tragedies need to learn that homophobia is NOT okay. They need to know that acceptance of their fellow human beings would indeed plant a seed of peace that will reverberate throughout the world. We are not asking that Sesame Street do anything crude or disrespectful. Only that they allow Bert & Ernie to marry or even add a transgender character to the show. It can be done in a tasteful way. Let us teach tolerance of those that are different. Let Sesame Street and PBS Kids be a big part in saving many worthy lives.”
Ummmm really?? Just because Bert and Ernie live together does NOT mean they are gay. Anybody that has watched Sesame Street knows that Bert and Ernie are notoriously argumentative. If they were a couple, they probably would have broken up a long time ago and needed therapy and a good divorce lawyer. The two are just friends and Sesame Street has released a statement via Facebook saying so:
“Bert and Ernie are best friends. They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves. Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most Sesame Street Muppets do), they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation.”
With same sex marriage being legal in six states (New York, Massachusetts, Iowa, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont and Washington, D.C.) it makes sense that some would love to see old pals Bert and Ernie tie the knot but just as many have fought for the right to get married, no one should force Bert and Ernie to fight for the right to remain single.
These guys are just friends…but hey there’s always Yogi Bear and Boo Boo. Now those guys deserve a spring wedding.
Learn more about the debate below and watch Bert & Ernie in action:
Maybe BIG BIRD should get a sex change.
Way to HIJACK a kid’s show for your political agenda, LGBTQRSTLNOV or whatever you call yourselves this election year.
Is nothing allowed to be innocent and without political/sexual spin anymore?
I have nothing against civil rights, equality, all of that.. but good lord, stop sticking it in everybody’s face all the time just to “promote your cause.” Stop taking everything that you can interpret to represent gays or lesbians as your own, because it’s not. Some things are just better left alone. This “debate” just makes the gay & lesbian community look like fools. So what, every time two guys live in the same dorm room at college, now they just might be gay because the LGBT-blah blah community so badly wants Bert & Ernie to be gay? Absurdity to the Nth degree. They are friends, stop reading into everything. Just stop the madness, please, and back away from the computer.
Leave the kids out of this!
Kids shouldn’t even be worrying about anything sexual, and much less marriage.
Can we petition for the innonece of our children??
Sheeesh… Now its just obnoxious
I suppose Bananas in Pyjamas willl have to go the same way. Perhaps a double wedding?
So whats going to happen when the hetero-sexual children begin to feel that they are a minority? We spend so much time of our lives trying to make children of homo-sexual orientation feel better about themselves that we begin to make hetero-sexual children feel that they are wrong and that they are doing something very wrong with there lives. What happened to the days when children were taught that a proper family consisted of mother, father and children? So when children begin to ask there parents why these televised same-sex couples cannot naturally have children as hetero-sexual couples, how do you plan on explaining that to them? Are we going to have to tell them that the stalk doesn’t deliver babies to same-sex couples simply because he doesn’t like them? When the homo-sexual children begin to harass the hetero-sexual children how are we going to deal with that one? Maybe we should return to the days when children were meant to have innocent fun and not worry about their or their friends sexual orientation, or having to make each other feel good about that. When we begin to force same-sex education on young children, the children are going to begin to feel that they would be wrong to be attracted to someone of the opposite sex. Bottom line; leave your liberal, same-sex promoting views out of innocent children’s programming.
I am disgusted,mortified and insulted about the issue of Ernie and Bert being married on sesame street.I grew up watching this show and never thought this would be an issue.TO me they were 2 friends just living together,nothing more.It should be left that way.These are puppets folks.Stop throwing homosexuality in our hetro faces.
THIS IS SICK..
I UNDERSTAND THAT EVERYONE HAS A RIGHT, BUT LEAVE THE KIDS OUT OF IT.. AM NOT AGAINST HOMOSEXUAL BUT THIS IS CRAZY..EVERYTHING TO A CERTAIN LIMIT..