SpongeBob Story Full of Holes, Doesn't Hold Water
Hey, I've got an idea. For a change, why don't we evangelicals start acting as if "Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Your Neighbor" really is one of the ten commandments? After all, we've spent much of the past year screaming and shouting about the fact that a one ton granite representation of that one and the others was removed from an Alabama courthouse.We're ready at the drop of a hat to hold massive and loud rallies on behalf of the commandments. So, perhaps, some of us should (with the help of a friend with a forklift) turn the granite commandments around so they're facing us and we can read them. Then we might notice the 9th one.
I mention this because I spent much of my radio day debunking a claim by the American Family Association that a video featuring SponeBob Square Pants was a form of pro-homosexual propaganda. World Net Daily also ran a story, which linked to a pro-homosexual group with the name "We are family". Only the problem is that the pro-homosexual group name "We are family" was not the same group which did the video. The latter group is called "The We are Family Foundation".
The founder was shocked by the level of controversy and vowed that his group didn't having anything to do with promoting homosexuality and that the idea for the video came to him after the 9/11 attacks. In their defense WND eventually ran a correction, but then again, so did 60 Minutes. In the meantime the damage had been done - James Dobson mentioned the story at one of the events at last week's inauguration, and the rest is history, written by the likes of The Daily Show, Saturday Night Live and other late night comedy shows.
Maybe the reason that I'm so ticked off about this is that the day before this happened, I got my zillionth copy of the email that warns that Madalyn Murray O'Hair was about to get the FCC to ban Christian TV. This old saw was a scam from day one, and even if it weren't, I'm sure it ended over a decade ago when her bookeeper chopped Ms. O'Hara into little bits and hid them in a barrell underground. Then there's the one about J.K. Rowling being a witch (actually she and her kids are members of the Church of Scotland.)
C'mon guys, we're getting like 'the Arab street' with it's bizarre conspiracy theory and gossip-driven 'journalism.' Let me be as plain as I can be - Christians are the only people in the world who believe that Truth is actually a Person; that Truth became a Man; that Truth therefore can be insulted.
Why, therefore, have we once again embaressed ourselves with a story that simply isn't true? Because, although we fight for the commandments, I'm not sure that we actually read them.
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