Don’t say that just because two guys live together, they MUST be gay and they MUST get married. On the other side of the great debate was Facebook poster Chris Gregoire, who wrote, “If you want to introduce a new pair of gay characters, go ahead. “Let us teach tolerance of those that are different.” It all began on a post from someone named Robert Anderson, who wrote, 'I don't get why people think Bert and Ernie are the gay Muppets when Statler and Waldorf are right there, throwing shade from. “It can be done in a tasteful way,” said the petition, which was signed by nearly 6,000 people. I’m not even gay and I support it,” wrote a Facebook poster named Leah Dehler.Īn online petition asked that the puppets be allowed to tie the knot with no strings. “I honestly can’t think of a more fun or more simple way to teach my kid about same-sex marriage. The very fact that the producers felt it necessary to educate their viewers about the non-sex lives of puppets demonstrates the extent of the mad online debate that captivated bloggers who had nothing better to worry about while Wall Street was going crazy. “Even though they are identified as male charac ters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most Sesame Street Muppets do), they remain puppets and do not have a sexual orientation.” “Bert and Ernie are best friends,” the producers said in a statement. The producers of “Sesame Street” delivered some bad news yesterday to legions of Muppet fans who’ve been convinced for years that Bert and Ernie are gay and who’ve been bombarding the Internet with speculation about a wedding.īut, it turns out, Muppets aren’t gay. Thanks for defusing in a way that doesn't hurt anyone, especially Sesame Street.It’s official - what Bert and Ernie feel for each other is nothing but innocent puppet love. "But this was a silly, trivial campaign that put Sesame Street in an extraordinarily unfair dilemma.
"I'm 100% committed to equality for all," Daniel De Simone wrote. One online petition, launched this week, had gathered more than 5,400 signatures supporting a Bert and Ernie marriage.īut some commenters said the campaign was bad idea. SpongeBob could not be reached for comment. In South Africa they added an HIV-positive character to the to combat ignorance and exclusion."
"But I do think it would be good to have an LGBT character on Sesame Street. "I don't agree with the Bert marrying Ernie part of the petition," Roy Hans added. "The Count has had several girlfriends, to name just one example." "It just seems to me that you can't say puppets don't have a sexual orientation when there have been plenty of cases of hetero courtship on Sesame Street over the years," Scott Hanson wrote. "So all along Miss Piggy was after Kermit for his frog legs for supper?" "Muppets do not have sexual orientation?" Sharkey Violet wrote. A former writer for Sesame Street said in a recent interview that he considered Bert and Ernie to be gay but the show rebutted this claim, saying the puppets. On February 18, 2010, the Archdiocese of Washington announced that they are.
This hot button topic that has caused raging and flaming controversy all over the United States for years is still dominating headlines. The assertion was questioned by a number of commenters on Sesame Street's Facebook wall. Bert and Ernie, legendary lovable Sesame Street icons, are in favor of same-sex marriage, sources close to them recently revealed.