It's not just soy anymore, or Sponge Bob.
Now James Dobson, with the help of serial liar Michael Medved has taken his mighty criticism and knowledge of all things gay to the movie "Happy Feet!"
Media Matters reports an exchange between these two kultur kriegers:
DOBSON: There is a movie that's out now, called Happy Feet. It's about penguins. It's obviously designed to pull children in and yet, you don't like it. I've read some of the things you've said about it. I haven't seen it and don't plan to see it but from what I've heard, I don't like it either. Explain why.
MEDVED: Because it's depressing and it's dark.
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MEDVED: And then there's this whole subtext, as there so often is, about homosexuality. Not that the penguins are gay -- they're not gay -- but the one penguin hero doesn't fit in and the religious authorities -- the so-called religious right in the penguin world -- are very judgmental. They say, "You are not a penguin. You're not a real penguin." And then he makes this heartfelt plea, he says, "Dad, you have to accept me as I am. I can't change." And --
Now personally, I don't like the movie because it's got penguins in it.
It shows how Hollywood has contempt for us: They had that documentary with penguins (which was a good movie), and you can see the pitch that was made: "Penguins! We must have more movies about penguins!"
And so Happy Feet was greenlighted.
(On edit: I'm told - below- March of the Penguins was done after Happy Feet was greenlighted.)
Yet there's another movie too, about surfing penguins due to come out next year...
Kind of like Passion of the Christ which led to the greenlighting of Apocalypto! and The Nativity...
But gay penguins! Yeah, just because there are gay penguins (evidently lots of 'em) doesn't mean that there isn't a bit of same-sex attraction between Michael Medved and James Dobson, does it?