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Falwell's Gonna Freak After accussing the Teletubbies of promoting the Gay lifestyle, wonder what he'll think about these?



-- Anonymous, July 01, 2001

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I don't disbelieve you, Carl. I've heard other places that Mr. "Farout" said the 'tubbies were promoting a gay life style. Do you have a link or can someone briefly explain HOW? I saw several minutes of the show while I was babysitting, and I didn't see anything that struck me in that way. Sure, I'll admit to being a bit culturally dense: I thought that B&D was a new laundry soap. . . .

-- Anonymous, July 01, 2001

I had heard this, too, as my daughter had all the tele tubbies for the little ones....WHERE did he get this????? I mean, I also heard the teletubbies were reciting pornagraphic messages. Come on, Mr Falwell,....really reaching, don't you think??????

Personnally, I have always thought the teletubbies were more "alien than anything else.

-- Anonymous, July 01, 2001


Falwell blast Teletubbies as Gay

Annoy.com had at the time a picture of Falwell having sex with Furby, but I can't find it anymore... :(

-- Anonymous, July 01, 2001


Thanks, Carl. I read the link, and I'm speachless at the moment (a feat!)

I fear the Rev. has been smoking wacky tobaccy or something, assuming that's not a fake article (and I don't think it is). Geez!

-- Anonymous, July 01, 2001


ABC News, Feb 10, 1999

Falwell Targets Teletubbies
Tinky Winky Character Exhibits 'Subtle Depictions' of Homosexuality, He Says

An article in the current edition of Rev. Jerry Falwell's National Liberty Journal claims the Tinky Winky character on Teletubbies is gay, pointing to his color, antennae and purse as evidence.

By David Reed
The Associated Press

R O A N O K E, Va., Feb. 10 — Is Tinky Winky gay?

The Rev. Jerry Falwell suspects so, telling parents that the purple Teletubbie character from the popular children’s television show is a homosexual role model.

Under a headline that reads “Parents Alert: Tinky Winky Comes Out of the Closet,” an article in the February edition of the National Liberty Journal notes that Tinky Winky has the voice of a boy yet carries a purse.

“He is purple — the gay-pride color; and his antenna is shaped like a triangle — the gay-pride symbol,” the story said. The paper is edited and published by Falwell.

It’s a Magic Bag — Not a Purse

Falwell contends the “subtle depictions” are intentional and in a statement issued Tuesday said, “As a Christian I feel that role modeling the gay lifestyle is damaging to the moral lives of children.”

A spokesman for Itsy Bitsy Entertainment Co., which licenses the Teletubbies in the United States, said that what Falwell’s newspaper described as a purse is actually Tinky Winky’s magic bag.

“The fact that he carries a magic bag doesn’t make him gay,” Steve Rice said. “It’s a children’s show, folks. To think we would be putting sexual innuendo in a children’s show is kind of outlandish.”

The British show aimed at toddlers began airing on U.S. public television stations last spring and is now as popular as Barney, a singing dinosaur who also happens to be purple.

Outing Teletubby ‘Absurd’

The Teletubbies are portrayed by actors in oversized, brightly colored costumes. They all have television screens on their tummies and, according to the story line, live in a superdome hidden in the hills.

Other than Tinky Winky, the troupe features Dipsy in green, Laa-Laa in yellow and Po in red. The Teletubbies dance, sing and share “bi-i-ig hugs” beneath a radiant sun emblazoned with the face of a laughing infant.

Rice said Falwell was attacking “something sweet and innocent” to further his conservative political agenda. “To out a Teletubby in a preschool show is kind of sad on his part. I really find it absurd and kind of offensive,” he said.

Falwell’s spokeswoman, Laura Swickard, said the founder of the now-defunct Moral Majority agreed with everything that was in the NLJ article and would not comment beyond his one-paragraph statement.

In 1997, Falwell urged General Motors, Chrysler and Johnson & Johnson to withdraw their sponsorship of an episode of the sitcom Ellen when the lead character announced her homosexuality.

-- Anonymous, July 01, 2001



Falwell's Furby Collection



-- Anonymous, July 01, 2001


I thought that B&D was a new laundry soap

Meemur, I'm speechless....

-- Anonymous, July 01, 2001


You have to understand the context, Carl. I was doing the family laundry once at the campus laundromat while our home machine was being worked on when I lived in Ann Arbor, MI. I was maybe 14 or so. This guy was teasing this other guy about having to wash his mistresses' panties and then he said something about B&D, so I made a connection between B&D being a type of soap good for the "danties." Fortunately, I did not go up and ask him further questions. It was another few years before I learned the real meaning, but that's not a story for a G-rated board.

-- Anonymous, July 01, 2001

What G-rated board?

-- Anonymous, July 01, 2001

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