Bert & Ernie are not gay, Sesame Street says in statement

That's so sad when Sesame Street has to release a statement saying that. What is this world coming to!!!

When I was a kid and watched Sesame Street, I was dealing with the loss of my mother. I always thought of Bert and Ernie as a single dad and his son. But I was just projecting myself into the characters. Leave them undefined. The beauty of Sesame Street is that there is at least one character you can identify with on a personal level. If you overdefine the characters, then you take that away.

I can’t find a place inside that responds to propagandizing to children for any reason. But the really funny thing is the fact that people are talking about innocence in relationship to this issue. There is a wealth of evidence (and more will come soon enough) concerning just how unhealthy television and other media sources are for children. The second you sit them in front of a television set they begin to lose anything that could reasonably be construed as innocence. We use our kids as guinea pigs and think we are being progressive. Funny stuff.

tisk,tisk tisk, now now children...PLAY NICE!

This proves that queers are after YOUR CHILDREN.

In the UK, queers are pressing to change the laws of sexual consent to as young as 14 years old.

That, alone, is enough to denounce the unclean homosexual movement.

Homosexuality is nothing but demon possession, and Satan is the biggest pervert of them all.

Make your own queer puppets and leave mine alone....sick

Why do people try to force their preferences and lifestyle on everyone else? Equality doesn't mean slapping a sexual orientation on a children's character. We don't all have to believe in the same things or agree with each other. Leave the Bert and Ernie out of this. Equality is not an image or marketing, but treating each other decently even if we do not have the same lifestyles or opinions. I believe in the seperation of church and state and let's keep sexual orientation seperate (personal) too.

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*Sigh* Why does everything have to come with a sex-label nowadays? And why does every guy with a male best friend need to hook up? Why can't Bert and Ernie just represent those guys in the world who are JUST FRIENDS, rather than the gays or the straights? Why are these adults even watching/harassing Sesame Street? It's an educational program FOR CHILDREN and I for one prefer that mine didn't have to deal with the straight/gay question during their TV time. No offense to gays either, I'd just prefer that my kids didn't have to dwell upon YA/adult matters while in Elementary School. There's enough media bombarding them about sex as it is. If you want your kids to be into the gay biz then swamp them with it at your house. As for me, I'd like for my children to take things slowly without the pressure of trying to decide what sexual side they're on. They're not even having sex yet!

That's it....computer..off

"SpongeBob could not be reached for comment." LOL. Brilliant.

I don't understand the desire to openly label people by sexual orientation. I don't find the label to be helpful or in any way useful. If we are going to label people then it might be more productive to label them according to health conditions like "I have a cold" or "I have the flu". Then we would know who to keep our distance from to avoid getting a cold or the flu. This fascination with sexuality is just creepy. It is called your private life for a reason. Please keep it that way.

everyone who signed that petition should be ashamed of themselves! It,s a children,s show with puppets! Children are innocent so stop trying to force your gayness on them!

Who starts this type of crap? Geez! Sesame Street is for pre kindergarten children who enjoy the bright colors and the goofy music and all the movement. Show me a 3 year old who even know what "sexual orientation" is and I will show you a warped child and an unfit parent. If an adult has time to try to guess the bedroom habits of a muppet (or Tinky Winky) that adult needs to go get therapy and a hobby. Sesame Street has been a terrific influence on millions of small children, teaching them not only letters, numbers, colors etc, but teaching them how to be polite, friendly, curious and confident. Leave Sesame Street alone.
Get a life!

Ive had enough of the gay agenda being constantly thrown in my face.

Gay this, gay that. You know, having someone's lifestyle forced down their throats is a good way to make people hate it. Since when was Sesame Street about sex in any way, shape or form, anyhow? The kids who watch it are too little to be learning about that particular part of the human condition, anyway-it's a program for TODDLERS, for pity's sake! Can't we keep sex of any kind out of it?

The target audience does not need to have anything relating to sexual orientation in its programming. These are little kids, for crying out loud. They don't know gay from straight from transgender from whatever!! To me, being gay or straight is nothing more than who you have sex with and how you do it -- do pre-schoolers need to know this? I think not. I'm all for gay rights -- for gay ADULTS -- but this is getting a bit ridiculous, don't you think?

HOLY CRAP BATMAN!! THERE MUST BE SOMEONE TO PUNCH IN THE NOSE. These gays are getting out of hand. We don't push hetero obnoxiously, but they love to push homo obnoxiously on us. I'm getting sick of it. Back off, stay in the closet and stay away from my kids. The gays will be all over this site on a mass thumbing campaign now. Never has such a small percentage have so much clout. Don't tell, don't ask, we will leave you alone, and you leave the public alone.

No way. Not gay. No gay man would ever have a uni-brow. He would have those waxed.

This is not helping the Cause of being accepted as gay if people are going force the way you look at simple things like Sesame Street "Burt & Ernie"

Could people please stop trying to destroy the kids minds! I grow up as a kid watching Sesame Street, and never thought anything about the Burt & Ernie connection but them just being friends. Let kids be kids, and if they grow up to be gay then so be it. But please don't enforce it on all kids. It's like your trying to force kids into homosexuality, and that's not right.