(*thanks to Babs at GRAANJ for sending this along)

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_r...04/06/03/shrek/

Shrek and the "transgender agenda"



President Bush's chief of faith-based activities stood in the White House the other day and said that while Iraq drew so much attention, there was another war, right here at home, we should heed: The culture war. (What better way to distract Americans from the war in Iraq than promoting cultural difference?)

Well, here's a sure sign of culture war: A right-wing group has watched a children's cartoon and sees moral Armageddon. Remember when Jerry Falwell deconstructed Tinky-Winky and saw not a purple Teletubby but the color of gay pride -- and a gay pride symbol instead of a triangle-shaped antenna?

Now, Lou Sheldon's Traditional Values Coalition is alerting parents to yet another danger lurking in children's entertainment. This time, the offender is a supposedly "transgender" bartender in Shrek 2. This bartender has stubble yet wears a dress and has "female breasts," the TVC alert warns. Confusing matters further, the bartender's voice is that of Larry King.

TVC watched the movie and details the offending passages: "During a dance scene at the end of the movie, this transgendered man expresses sexual desire for Prince Charming, jumps on him, and both tumble to the floor. In another scene in the movie, Shrek and Donkey need to be rescued from a dungeon where they are chained against the wall. The rescue is conducted by Pinocchio who is asked to lie so his nose will grow long enough for one of the smaller cartoon characters to use it as a bridge to reach Shrek and Donkey. Donkey encourages him to lie about something and suggests he lie about wearing women's underwear. When he denies wearing women's underwear, his nose begins to grow."

For all this and more, read TVC's report, "A Gender Identity Disorder Goes Mainstream," which helpfully explains "the transgender agenda and the effort to deconstruct the biological reality of male and female." DreamWorks is helping in this effort by "promoting cross dressing and transgenderism in this animated film," TVC says.

Concerned parents may also want to read up on TVC's research on hermaphrodism. TVC claims to "expose" the "homosexual urban legend" that "genital deformities found in hermaphrodite newborns are actually evidence of a third sex -- not a birth defect." We had no clue. Neither, clearly, does the TVC. (Thanks to reader Steve & Eve.)

-- Geraldine Sealey

[07:42 PDT, June 3, 2004]

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Well it's really interesting that men like Lou Sheldon, Jerry Falwell, and Fred Phelps are so utterly obsessed with "homosexuality", and what they perceive as "homosexuality".

Makes one wonder.

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-- Chuck Panozzo

These "people" are regarded as either moral mentors or twisted sickos depending upon who is asked; the scary part is (as Jim Costich has mentioned in earlier posts): they have monetary, religious, and political power and seem to lump-sum transgender, gay, and intersex people together as abominations of God.
Even the less agressive, seemingly humane ones have their version of Utopia in mind:

Excerpts from the article link below:

In the early '90s the American Civil Liberty Union informed members of the California State Assembly's Education Committee that they were opposed to a bill the committee was considering. The bill, which called for traditional values in school curricula, was offensive to the ACLU because it would mandate that students be taught that monogamous, heterosexual relations solely within marriage is a traditional American value. The ACLU argued that this would be an "unconstitutional establishment of a religious doctrine in public schools."{1} They went on to contend that the bill was an obvious violation of the First Amendment.

More recently, a private school in the Georgia asked a student to either change his behavior or leave the school. This, in itself, is not a rare event. However, the student wasn't a discipline problem and he wasn't failing academically. In fact, he was popular and liked by many on campus. The problem was that he was cross- dressing. He dressed and behaved as a woman and was accepted by many students as a female. When the student chose to leave the school instead of changing his attire, the school's drama teacher remarked, "I really think that we all lost something precious that night."{2}

another area of website below:

While it's true that many homosexuals love each other, that kind of love still falls short of God's standard of holiness. There's nothing holy about what God has called an abomination. That is not "the law of Jewish scriptures" as if they were written by scribes and Pharisees; that is the very word breathed by God Himself. There is no contradiction between the Old and New Testament when it comes to what is moral, what reflects the character of God. Homosexual sin is not love as God defines it, regardless of how the culture tries to persuade people it is.

http://www.probe.org/docs/cultwars.html

It's not just here in the US, either; AND hate/intolerance has no boundries, doesn't matter what religion, atheist etc. It's all about the power to correct and control with entrenched man-made religious and socio-political ideologies as the "hammer"

It's kind of interesting that the bible actually contains an acknowledgement that intersex people exist (Matthew 19:12 "For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb"). This is right next to the bit about marriage that these twisted sickos like to quote so much.

But I don't really think these people care much about facts or historical accuracy. They just make up whatever crap they want to support their political agenda.

there is actually a Bible reference to us???

What is the whole reference?

Any clues what the religious types WANT us to do with ourselves?

* I find the eunuch description an insult, doctors made me a eunuch, I suppose nature made us that way too. But eunuch suggests someone controls us, at least from my knowledge.
** Correct me if I'm just rambling

PS, that reference (Like a lot of other things in the bible) is rather vague to me.