Is it Time for Bert and Ernie to Tie the Knot in Gay Marriage Ceremony?
- Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:02am by
Tiffany Gabbay
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Is nothing innocent, or sacred — even children’s show characters? Now that New York State has legalized same sex marriage, is it time for Sesame Street‘s Bert and Ernie to fess up that they’re (allegedly) gay and just tie the knot already? That’s the question posed by the “social change” organization Change.org.
Change.org‘s website even posted a petition encouraging the show’s creators to hold a same-sex marriage for the two puppets in a “tasteful way.”
But this only adds to the longtime questions of whether the bosom buddies are in fact gay.
According to My Fox New York:
For decades the pair have shared a close friendship, a bedroom in a small apartment with separate beds. (The duo even wear similar striped shirts.)
But the friends are gender neutral, the show’s creators have said and not homosexual.
Throughout their history together, the TV characters have sent the message that no matter how different they might look from each other (Bert was designed with a banana in mind and Ernie with an orange as an inspiration– hence the shape of their bodies) they are more alike than different and differences should be respected.
Not everyone, though, (even liberals) is embracing the petition. The Daily Beast’s Andrew Sullivan — who is gay – writes on his popular blog that the two should be left alone.
Alyssa Rosenberg of the liberal site Think Progress reminds everyone that Bert and Ernie aren’t even gay:
If Bert and Ernie were gay, I would be all for them bopping down to City Hall and getting hitched. But the characters aren’t gay. People may want them to be gay, but the Sesame Workshop has repeatedly denied that either character is homosexual and that they are a couple, and I’m pretty firmly in favor of creators’ rights to determine basic facts about their characters.
And remember, they’re not humans, they’re puppets, says Jezebel’s Whitney Jefferson (via The Atlantic).
“My gripe is that I’ve not just been fighting for gays to have the right to marry for two decades; I’ve also been fighting for them to have the right not to marry, if they so choose,” he says. “And that applies to Bert and Ernie.”
What do you think? Are Bert and Ernie gay? Or are same sex marriage activists just using popular children’s show characters to help prop up their agenda?
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Comments (275)
NotaLemming
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:55amtime to just turn off the TV and read a copy of the Constitution to your kids. Over and Overt and Over and Overt and Over and Overt and Over and Overt and Over and Overt and Over and Overt and Over until they finally get it!
Report Post »HKS
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:31amGive em an inch and they take a mile.
Report Post »Minnaloushe
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:04am@HKS
Give ‘em 12 and they’ll take it all!
Sorry. I couldn’t resist.
Really. :)
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:13am.
I didn’t know Muppets had Constitutional rights.
GLBTM?
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, muppets?
Oh, the indignity they have suffered. Having straight hands touching your,
Report Post »ahem, bottoms…….all for the amusement of strangers.
JayCee
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:15amWhy Bert and Ernie?
Report Post »It time for the frog and pig to finally tie the knot!
Let’s teach the Sesame Street kids about animal rights too.
Legalize cross species marriage now!
jb.kibs
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:42amernie is a girl… who cares…
if the homos are suggesting that ernie is a male, why? that is a male stereotype when they teach gender neutral… i have heard women who sound exactly like ernie, with the same haircuts. Ernie is a FEMALE you morons! ;)
stop stereotyping. hypocrisy.
Report Post »closetotheedge
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 10:16amCome on now, Now it’s Bert n Ernie??? 95% of programs and cartoons have for years been indoctrinating us to accept whatever lifestyle no-matter how degenerant,blatantly shoving there isms in protected parades with police protection,mostly for the peacefull or heavenforbid,a christian, we get beat up by hairy-fairies in what they call‘normal attire’ in every degenerantly possible way. I don’t have a word for it.These glbht,etc, the radicals that attack others just brings more conflict to the hot issue.But Bert n Ernie as partners,buddies,peeking out of the box,??? They gotta try and pin this on them. Their PUPPETS!!! And they have a great past,teaching kids morals and proper manners.How to behave and treat other people.It’s still the Golden Rule; Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”. So now the “I’m not sure what i am”?” group hit B n E,just a couple of ‘friends’ who never grew up, can still just be. Friends. Now with Cali. mandatory K -12 classes on how the glbtsco people have /DONE WHAT??/ in history, must be tauught as OK, you must accept this life. whf!?? To a 5yr’old?? And no-one can stop this?? Fire all the elected officals, top down to local schoolboards and get back to the basics of ;Reading ,Writeing and Arithmatic.But with churches ordaining gay & lesbians,what do our children and young folks have as an example to look up to? The moral compass of our country and the world on the edge, let Bert n Ernie be who they are,a pair of guys luvin
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:43amIs it not enough that we sexualize little girls by design clothes that hookers wouldn’t wear? Have you had the displeasure of school shopping at stores like Justice?
The shorts at Justice for 10 year olds look like baby clothes! Now this?
“Teacher… leave them’ kids alone”!
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:48amWhat this really shows is the homosexuals can find a childrens t/v show to be sexual in nature….
Report Post »It’s a dark look into the perversion of the homosexual mind.
USAMama
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:58amCan we please, PLEASE, for the love of God and all things sacred KEEP politics OUT of our children’s shows!! Leave my kids alone!!
I never watched Sesame Street as a kid though, and fortunately for me my kids aren’t into it either. But if they start putting that crap in it then they need to stop using tax $ for sure!!
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 12:21pmGOD did not make GAY ROOSTERS!
Report Post »FRRRMAGS
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 3:02pmI totally agree with NOTALEMMING!
NOTALEMMING
Report Post »Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:55am
time to just turn off the TV and read a copy of the Constitution to your kids. Over and Overt and Over and Overt and Over and Overt and Over and Overt and Over and Overt and Over and Overt and Over until they finally get it!
KKC003
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 4:22pmagree.
Report Post »SodamYat
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:53pmPuppets are people too man.. says the liberal thats a ???????
Report Post »avenger
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:57pmI think only homosexual puppets/muppets should marry…
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:52amThe “Count” will be counting the number of neighborhood people with AIDS soon. One, two, three..
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:34amha ha ha
very funny
just like the millions who die as a result of that or any other horrible disease.
Haven’t you heard? WE can catch it too!!
They aren’t the only ones with it, just the ones you stereotype with it.
They get it through unprotected sex and promiscuity.
And we want to deny them the right to get married?
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that married people are less promiscuous than singles.
“If it neither breaks my leg, nor picks my pocket, what business is it of mine?” – Thomas Jefferson
OH, re: Bert and Ernie – Leave kids tv characters alone!! Sheesh!! If you want to get married, just say so! Don‘t go twisting innocent children’s characters for your own political purpose!!!
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southerngal
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:43amWow, what a stereotype. Gay men are 800X more likely to to be HIV positive than a heterosexual man. Boy was he wrong on that one.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 10:29amLove that good, old fashion, christian bigotry displayed here on the Blaze day after day.
Report Post »NewAmericanist
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 10:42amDon’t be rediculous! As a straight, married, monogomos man I have Zero risk of “catching” aids.
Report Post »calyptratus
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 1:00pmTo Tomferrari – my pockets are being picked by the GMLTB what the f ever lobbysts who are taking taxpayer money to indoctrinate and proseletize youth at schools with fisting demonstrations etc. don’t believe me goole it in Massachusetts the gay state
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 1:07pmDo the homosexual lobbies think about anything other than sex or just see sex in every little thing they encounter????? Perhaps if they were not so obsessed with sex and trying to find sex and trying to let everyone else in the whole world know about their quest for sex…..
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 2:55pmHey Tom here’s a little light reading from the CDC
Report Post »http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/Newsroom/docs/FastFacts-MSM-FINAL508COMP.pdf
Spock
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:06pmEnicom, glad to see you here, anything that has to do with gueers and dicksuckin you would be here. I guess that you want anything male is sublect to the gueer world including puppets. One question…Did your mother suckle you on her breast or your dad’s d…?
Report Post »joe1234
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:46amthey gotta get new recruits from somewhere…but remember BERT IS EVIL…
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:06amSure, continue to corrupt our young children every way you can. Partner with Van Jones, hes into that too. Come on parents, start protesting all this stuff if you want to save your children from communism.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:31amOMGosh, when I was a kid, I just thought they were close friends or roommates. Never would have occured to me they were gay. Of course, I didn’t know about same sex relationships until high school. Now they’re teaching “alternative lifestyles” to our kindergarteners.
Report Post »tom
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:41amAll of this sickness if the result of a pro gay president. He has demonstrated this in his radical gay agenda, sometimes so wrapped in the gay issues he forgets he’s got some other work to do when not vacationing. Obama tried to infiltrate into the public schools with his “hand picked” appointment of openly pedophile “Kevin Jennings” until Congress on the “Right”, threatened a Congressional investigation if Obama doesn’t show Jennings the “back door.” America, we have a sick and twisted president, starting from his youth, and his connection to gay club finder, Rev Wright, and now, God only knows what takes place in the White House. Vote him out in 2012. Pray for our country and children, the smoke of Satan is right before our vary eyes.”Gay people should simply keep their sexuality to themselves, respecting those who are not gay!
Report Post »12 ga
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:38amNext, Oscar will want redistribution of wealth because he has to live in a trashcan while bert and ernie live in a nice apartment!!!
Report Post »southerngal
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:57amHa, Ha, Ha, thats a good one. And disenfranchised twiddlebugs will march on washington.
Report Post »Im2Big2Fail
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:39amlmfao
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 10:01amgood point.. why does he live in a trash can whilst others live in homes?… why does big bird not even have a home?…. just a nest behind some fence… where does elmo live? how much taxes do each of them pay? where do they work? what kind of morals are they teaching someone? you can sit around and sing all day without doing any work? what does marriage have to do with little kids? what does it matter what burt and ernie are, they used to be roommates.. now they love eachother? they have always slept in seperate beds… they have never hugged or shown eachother affection in that way…. how do they figure they are gay for eachother? are they suggesting that just because people share a room they are gay for eachother? that is the most ridiculous, narrow-minded, thing i’ve ever heard… everyone in the military is now “married” because of this way of thinking…. what a bunch of d!ckweeds.
Report Post »sisserydoo
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 10:57pmAh, that’s great! :o) Love it!
Report Post »LilliRose
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:37amWhy does everything have to be about sex with these people?? Leave the kids alone! There are plenty of other things that could be used to teach children about tolerance. I’m sick and tired of it! Children need to be children. They don’t have to know about gay marriage. I don’t even want to know about gay marriage. And for heavens sake, no transgendered characters!
Report Post »southerngal
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:39amThe indoctrination begins with children because homosexuals reproduce asexually. your child or mine is always a potential partner. Say it early enough and often enough and you change they way a child thinks and behaves. I made sure my children knew they were always out there, hiding and waiting for an opportunity to express themselves. No different than a pedophile. Your hard work becomes their trophy.
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 5:17pmBecause they’re sick demented perverts who need to indoctrinate people into their way of thinking.
Report Post »Ampleforth
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:37amOh yes, it is time for Bert and Ernie to jump the broom so Sesame Street and PBS can jump the shark.
Report Post »southerngal
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:01amThe homosexuals identify with bert and ernie because they like it when someone has a hand up their rear.
Report Post »lausdeo828
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:34am“People may want them to be gay, but the Sesame Workshop has repeatedly denied that either character is homosexual and that they are a couple, and I’m pretty firmly in favor of creators’ rights to determine basic facts about their characters.”
Finally someone gets it right. Our “Creator” did not create “Us” to be homosexual!
Report Post »southerngal
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:55amTrue , but who created Bert and Ernie.
Report Post »chfields62
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 10:39amGay is a strictly human perversion, however, they try to make everyone believe that it is natural and acceptable. This is BS!! Sex has 1 purpose and 1 purpose only, to propagate the species, anything else is unnatural and perverted. No where in nature do you see this kind of behavior, why? because it goes against the natural order of life. No matter what you say or how loud you say it, doesn’t change the facts. If you want to live that way, fine, but don’t try to push it off on the rest of us as natural or acceptable.
Report Post »GOPdiva
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 1:36amJim Henson created the puppet show and he is spinning in his grave over this. My daughters are in their 30′s now but they watched Sesame Street faithfully every day. I am an educator and supported the show for its educational value. I am incensed that a group of lowlifes are trying to defile an innocent children’s program. The show is broadcast on PBS which receives government funding. I say boycott PBS and demand they lose their funding if they continue this fraud.
Report Post »liberalsarealiens
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:33amThis is another prime example of the homosexual community craming their perverted livestyle down the throats of not only the adults of this nation but THE KIDS also! This is an outrage and only further alienates their “agenda”. Homosexuals are free to do what ever perversion they desire ( within the laws) but leave the kids OUT OF THE EQUATION!
Report Post »StonyBurk
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:37amMarriage is the union of one man and one woman . That some fornicator would hold up a poster with image of Bert and Ernie fictional puppets and the banner Support Gay Marriage suggests much of the fiction promoted by these unnatural and immoral people. It does not change the truth that “Marriage” is the union of one man and one woman.Period.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:42amIt’s pretty sickening.
Report Post »Non stop advancement and it’s pi**ing me off.
jb.kibs
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 10:03amErnie is a female… who cares.
Report Post »are you stereotyping ernie just because of the voice and haircut?! shame on you… have you learned nothing from them… ;P
GayDem4Beck
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:31amThis is not an issue for TBS or Public TV to discuss with kids. This should be left to the parents, who can decide the proper time and tone. Why do liberals want to push things upon people, especially at such young ages.
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 5:24pmBecause that’s the only way for people to become left wingers.
Report Post »tarbush
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:30amHey, what about Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson, Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear and Boo Boo, Ren and Stimpy, Beavis and ********, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, Tweety bird and Sylverter? The list goes on an on. Obviously all gay. And that Gumby and Pokey!!! What’s going on there???!! I don’t even want to go there! And that Space Ghost, what about that outfit he wears??? Would a straight guy be caught dead in that thing?
Geez, people need to focus on solving real problems instead of trying to get two muppets married.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:43amWhat about that ambigously gay duo on SNL?
Report Post »Vanbars
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:29amI have not watched the show in a long time, but if memory serves me correctly, Kermit was always pushing away the advances of Miss Piggy. Change.org – maybe you should focus your efforts on exploring Kermit’s sexuality. How could he repeatedly resist the temptations of that hot, seductive pig year after year? Perhaps he has not accepted his own gayness? You people at change.org are truly sick individuals, not because of your sexual preference, but for your desire to destroy an innocent part of America. Create your own puppet show and leave our kids alone!
Report Post »southerngal
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:50amummm, i think Miss Piggy and Kermit are different species. and as for their own puppet show, they have obama.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:23amwhen we the people stop PAYING fot PBS then bert and ernie can do as they please but until then NO WAY
Report Post »The Catbird
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:23amThis is PURE BOLLOCKS!! The two puppets live in the same arrangement that two brothers would live. Why do these demonized, dark souls have to view every act of life through their own perversion? Fine. if they want to live this way, do it; we don’t live under shariah (for the moment) and no one’s going to hang them. But for the love of God, leave the innocent ones alone and let them have a childhood.
Report Post »PingPongPing
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:20amErnie and Bert are not gay. What part of “being a puppet” do they not understand? Puppets don’t have sex, therefore they can’t be gay.
MORONS.
Report Post »Secka
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:24amI always thought it was a skit based of the old TV/Broadway show “The Odd Couple.”
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:47amThat’s my view. The whole thing is ridiculous. Cloth and plastic is not sexual and I‘m sure the kids who watch it don’t even consider it one way or another.
Good grief!!! The world has gone crazy!!!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:19am.
The word for the day is “Insidious”. Fifty years ago Ricky & Lucy could not share the same bed, but little by little it’s got to where you can catch a episode of Farmer Brown and His Fav Cow Bessie on channel 869. This is our fault we allowed this to become the norm.
It’s hard to put the Genie back in the bottle….
But we need to try….
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:19amWe simply pulled the plug when it came to shows and movies that pushed anti-family, anti-traditional values.
I knew from the get go that B&E had issues. Finally I’m vindicated for calling them gay from day one.
Report Post »offwego
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:19amI am so tired of the pro-gay groups trying to push their agenda on my kids! Enough is enough!
Report Post »bkfirvine
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:19amI’ve always considered the Bert and Ernie segment of Sesame Street to be gay, but not in the homosexual way.
Report Post »oldsoldier10
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:17amOMG really is this the new face of gay unions? Please just stop I do not want to live on this planet anymore! The “people” pushing this just need to shut the F up and go away, once the economy is not in the tank, our president is not a staunch commie liberal reverse raciest, Eric Holders Flash mobs have been herded and corralled, and the southern border is secured stopping the illegals pouring into the USSA then perhaps we can FORCE some fictional homosexual BS into our children’s heads! S T O P T H E M A D N E S S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:36amDon’t think I want to be on this planet anymore either.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:15amIt’s time to end Sesame Street or at least tune out. If they try anything like this and PBS allows it to happen it’s time to turn off PBS as well.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:14amFirst they tried to take cookies away from the Cookie Monster now THIS???? Hey, Sesame Street may be liberal in A LOT of things, but come on! Even they say the characters ARE NOT GAY!! Stop projecting your sexual preference onto things that are not sexual.
However, if you must, they have stores that cater to such things, for crying out loud…..
Report Post »megansmom
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:12amEverything is not about sexuality in the age group Sesame Street caters to. They don’t even know what marriage is. Please leave Bert and Ernie alone.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 10:06amexactly. they don’t bring up marriage with any other characters… what does it matter… why not just have 2 gay men on the show to talk… why change the characters after SO many years…
you can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time. – Bob Marley
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:10amI always thought everyone on that show were a bit light in the loafers.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:06amwhen hell freezes over!
NO! Who has decided these friends are queer? There is NO “gay” in the queer, homosexual lifestyle. It is sick, perverted, and the people who practice it are soul dead, people. Homosexuality is directly from satan himself.
Enough of catering to them. The line has been drawn in the sand. Over 2,000 years ago. By our CREATOR GOD. Hellllooooo?
Report Post »bew0576
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:05amI can’t even believe this would be considered! I knew PBS was a liberal station but this is going WAYYYYYYY too far! Anyone that supports PBS monitarily should stop!
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:22amGet a grip, dude. Nowhere does it say that anyone at PBS is supporting or even considering this nonsense.
Report Post »Rob
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:42amI don’t support PBS….although my tax money seems to be.
Report Post »tarbush
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:01amYou think the new masters will rename it the “Proletariat Broadcasting Collective” after the putsch?
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