Poland's "Jerry Falwell" bashes Tinky Winky as Being Gay


	Poland's "Jerry Falwell" bashes Tinky Winky as Being Gay

zasel

5-29-2007 2:40 AM

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gay, religion, poland, television, chidren

zasel says:

And here I thought that only Jerry Falwell was nuts enough to accuse a puppet on a children's television show of spreading moral decay by being gay. Obviously I was naive. Now Poland's Children's rights watchdog comes out with the same nonsense all these years later. The whole world is going nuts, I tell ya.

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5-29-2007 6:43 AM

debbyski

OMG.

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