Arthur gay wedding
Season 22 of "Arthur" kicked off with a special wedding episode that had people across the country talking. However kids in Alabama did not notice the May 13 episode, in which Arthur's teacher, Mr. Ratburn marries his partner. That's because it was never aired.
Alabama Public Television (APT) chose not to air the episode, entitled "Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone," according to Instead, "Arthur" fans in the state saw a rerun episode.
The decision was made back in April, when the local PBS station was notified about the content of the episode, Mike Mckenzie, director of programming at APT, told CBS News has reached out to Mckenzie and several other people at APT for comment and is awaiting response.
Mckenzie told that APT has no plans to air the episode at a later date. "Parents have trusted Alabama Public Television for more than 50 years to provide children's programs that entertain, educate and inspire," Mckenzie said in an email to the station.
"More importantly – although we strongly support parents to view television with their children and converse a
Why Mr. Ratburn&#;s gay wedding in Arthur is so important for LGBTQ+ kids
I watched a lot of PBS growing up. My mom and I didn&#;t have enough money for cable, so I relied on Saturday mornings and PBS Kids to watch the majority of my TV. The lie down I watched at friends&#; houses, appreciate when my finest friend would tape &#;That&#;s So Raven&#; for me and we&#;d marathon episodes together.
&#;Arthur&#; holds a special place in my heart. My cousin, Naomi, and I still joke about how we have the library card song from &#;Arthur&#; memorized, and she had the character ironed on her jeans in eighth grade. So when I learned that the PBS Kids show, which is in its twenty-second season now, featured a same-sex wedding, I was thrilled.
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Arthur: Alabama Public Television bans gay wedding episode
Alabama Public Television (APT) has refused to broadcast a cartoon which shows a same-sex wedding.
The first episode of the 22nd series of children's programme Arthur features the character Mr Ratburn marrying his aardvark partner, Patrick.
But APT instead ran an old episode, and announced it had no plans to show the premiere.
Programming director Mike McKenzie said broadcasting it would interlude parents' trust in the network.
In a statement, Mr McKenzie said "parents noun that their children can watch APT without their supervision", and that children "younger than the 'target' audience" might watch without parental knowledge.
Show creator WGBH and broadcaster PBS reportedly alerted local stations in April about the episode, and Mr McKenzie said this was when they decided not to air the illustrate.
Arthur is a joint Canadian/American series which debuted in about an eight-year-old anthropomorphic aardvark named Arthur Read and his friends,
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The premiere opening of the 22nd season of "Arthur," a PBS cartoon creation, features the same sex marriage between Patrick and Mr. Ratburn. The mainstreaming of the LGBTQ lifestyle is nothing new to television, but it seems to own reached a modern low by including cartoons aimed at the pre-school audience. My advice to parents would be to severely limit TV time for your children. (READ MORE) Use your DVR to log and preview the material you permit them see and if you include a DVD player, you can employ that to verb material that you approve of. I'm sure there is still some programming out there that is worthy of viewing, one that comes to mind is, "Daniel Tiger" a cartoon spin-off of "Mr. Rogers Neighborhood." The characters are the children of the original ones. My 2 and 1/2 year old granddaughter loves "Daniel Tiger."
Parenting in the 21st Century is a actual battle for the hearts and minds of our children. (spiritual warfare) We need to pray for our children and grandchildren as a priority and as a Church, take serious the vows we agreed to, when children are Baptize