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CWA Applauds Education Secretary Spellings for Busting ‘Buster’ 1/28/2005 Washington, D.C. – Concerned Women for America (CWA) applauds Department of Education (DOE) Secretary Margaret Spellings for her bold move during her first week in office to admonish the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) for using federal money to create an episode of Postcards from Buster that promotes homosexuality.
In a letter to Pat Mitchell, president and chief executive officer of PBS, Secretary Spellings wrote: “Many parents would not want their young children exposed to the lifestyles portrayed in the episode.”
“For years, PBS has been slipping pro-homosexual messages into its programming,” said Robert Knight, director of CWA’s Culture & Family Institute. “And the federal bureaucracy and their client, the education establishment, have done their share to destroy children’s innocence using the cover of ‘diversity.’ Along comes Secretary Spellings, who takes action as a servant of the people instead of a timid, go-along bureaucrat. Good for her.”
The yet-to-be-aired episode of Postcards from Buster, titled “Sugartime,” features an animated rabbit taking a tour of Vermont during the early spring. Along with farm life and maple sugaring, the episode explores Vermont’s same-sex “civil unions” by featuring two lesbian couples.
“Congress’ and the Department’s purpose in funding this programming certainly was not to introduce this kind of subject matter to children, particularly through the powerful and intimate medium of television,” Spellings added, requesting that a funding grant be returned and that the Department of Education be removed as a backer of the segment.
“Parents don't want their children homosexualized in the name of ‘education,’” Knight said. “Mrs. Spellings has given notice that left-wing lobbies will have to find other ways to peddle their pansexual propaganda. Let’s hope that other leaders in federal and state agencies find a backbone thanks to her courageous example.”
Concerned Women for America urged its constituents today to thank Secretary Spellings for her conscientious decision.
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