George Will writes
in his column:
The recent spat about Buster, PBS' cartoon rabbit, visiting two lesbian parents quickly became a second spat about the Education Department's threat to stop financing Buster. But a third spat should have been about why the Education Department (a fourth spat: Is that department necessary?) is paying for any of Buster's adventures. Is there a desperate shortage of television cartoons?
A good point. Using taxpayers' money to promote messages on
children's television that are offensive to the religious
sensibilities of social conservatives is a sure way to trigger
backlash, and works against what should be our political objective:
equal treatment under the law. And where in the U.S. Constitution,
among the limited powers delegated to the federal government, is
the clause authorizing the funding of progressive cartoons, anyway?
(hat tip: Gay
Patriot)