Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live." View all posts by Jimmy Akin
Jimmy, I want to go see spongebob this weekend, big fan of the earlier (funnier) days of the show but one of my friends was telling me there’s a bunch of vaugely homosexual humor in the film?
Your friend is exaggerating. There are two items in the film that one could read in that light if one was determined to, but both are open to multiple interpretations. In fact, one is something that Bugs Bunny not only could have done but *did* do, and nobody accused him of homosexuality.
The problem is that today we are in an environment where family viewers have been exposed to so much evil propaganda that they’re sometimes hyper-sensitive about these things and determined to see sinister messages in things.
Bottom line, if one let’s one’s enjoyment of a movie be ruined by a couple of *ambiguous* minor gags then one has embraced a form of cultural retreatism that will suck the joy out of life. You can’t make the criterion of a comedy depend on every single joke being *unambiguously* innocent.