Mr. Ratburn’s Gay Wedding was Normal.

With the aggressiveness of progressive social agendas being imposed onto children without parental influence being as common as it is, its easy for conservatives to react with suspicion or even outrage at anything resembling this agenda. Drag queens reading stories to very young children, 11-year-old boys dancing in drag in gay bars for an audience of intoxicated adults and children being encouraged to believe they are the opposite sex all cause a great deal of concern. But what about something that is becoming increasingly normal and noncontroversial like a gay wedding?

A long-running children’s cartoon show, Arthur, opened its 22nd season on May 14th, 2019 with a surprise wedding in which the show’s cast of child characters attend the wedding of their teacher and find out he is marrying another man, some on the right reacted negatively. A week after the controversy began, Alabama Public Television released a statement regarding their decision to not air the episode tweeting out, “Parents trust that their children can watch APT without their supervision,” Alabama Public Television said in response to criticism. Alabama Public Television refuses to air Arthur episode with gay wedding…” This decision happened after a petition circulated the day after the initial airing from the conservative organization One Million Moms in protest of the episode.