Sesame Street: Bert & Ernie just ‘friends’
Sesame Street denizens Bert & Ernie are just friends, according to an anonymous spokesman for the eternal children’s program, and will not be getting married.
Pals.
“Bert and Ernie are best friends. They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves. Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics … they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation,” said Sesame Street on its Facebook page Thursday.
The statement was made in response to an online petition calling for Bert and Ernie to get married.
Bert and Ernie could not be reached for comment because they are not people.
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Counting Sheep...ah, ah, ah
August 11th, 2011
2:58 pm
I’m starting a petition for a gluten-free Cookie Monster.
Anonymous
August 11th, 2011
3:01 pm
“Special” Girl,
Cute fades. Dumb is forever. L your AO about that.
Bill
August 11th, 2011
3:01 pm
What you have is an insecure segment of the population trying to force an agenda down the throat of the rest of America (no pun intended). Homosexuality is a choice acted on by the person. It is a sexual preference choice. I prefer blonde women. Does that make me born a racist? It’s my preference. Maybe I need special rights as well. While God spells out the sin of homosexuality in Genesis, Jesus confirms it in Mark. Remove the religious viewpoint and you have a scientific view that we are designed to procreate and propagate our species. Man and woman are the two human forms designed to procreate and pass on humanity. Anything beyond ‘design’ is a mutation and flaw. Chastise me all you want but from a biological and scientific perspective, homosexuality is a flaw in evolution and would by process eliminate itself.
nora
August 11th, 2011
3:02 pm
I was just talking about this the other day – I always said Bert and Ernie were gay!
IntownWriter
August 11th, 2011
3:02 pm
AGAIN with this story? It surfaces every three years or so. Let it GO.
D
August 11th, 2011
3:03 pm
This is a disgrace! Why would anyone question the sexual orientation of 2 characters on a kids television show? Maybe this country should worry about our financial dilemma and not nit pick at stupid topics such as these. This country is headed down the toilet fast and it’s because of all the terrible people living here.
GET A LIFE!
Realist
August 11th, 2011
3:03 pm
This is where gay “marriage” is leading–pimping perversion to our children.
Atlanta Native
August 11th, 2011
3:04 pm
Quite simply – why do people have to be so obsessed with how a person (or puppet) chooses to rub his or her naughty bits while in private? It is their character and how they comport themselves in society that matters. Are Oscar Wilde’s plays somehow better when you discover he likes to rub his parts with other men? Did Jimmy Page’s guitar solos become less musically adept due to his rumored obsession with rubbing parts with certain animals? If Mother Teresa went home after helping lepers all day and impaled herself on an anatomically correct Ronald McDonald statue, is that what is important about her? No. So get over yourselves and accept people for the content of their character and quit telling everyone how you choose to rub your parts, because it just does not matter.
Counting Sheep...ah, ah, ah
August 11th, 2011
3:06 pm
It’s a widely known fact that Mother Teresa preferred the Whopper to the Big Mac
Cute Girl
August 11th, 2011
3:06 pm
Anonymous:
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And I behold myself as Cute. Just like being homosexual is your choice, being Cute is mine. I’m not trying to make society like it or agree with it. I’m Cute on my own time and dime.
P.S. I have so much junk in my trunk, it may take me all day for me to LMAO! Can you hang around that long? I’d love for you to keep me company.