Teletubbies gay

When it comes to pearl-clutching gay scandals involving children's TV characters, the story of the Teletubbies — particularly of the handbag-holding Tinky Winky — is right up there with that. David Reed.

Falwell's spokeswoman, Laura Swickard, said the founder of the now-defunct Moral Majority agreed with everything that was in the NLJ article and would not comment beyond his one-paragraph statement. The Rev. Jerry Falwell suspects so, telling parents that the purple "Teletubbies" character from the popular children's television show is a homosexual role model.

Falwell contends the "subtle depictions" are intentional and in a statement issued yesterday said, "As a Christian I feel that role modeling the gay lifestyle is damaging to the moral lives of children. I really find it absurd and kind of offensive," he said.

A spokesman for Itsy Bitsy Entertainment, which licenses the Teletubbies in the United States, said that what Falwell's newspaper described as a purse is actually Tinky Winky's magic bag.

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The year was'The Teletubbies' was only two years old as a program, and the time was ripe for a Tinky Winky conspiracy. But Falwell saw something off about Tinky Winky, the largest pal in Teletubbyland. To think we would be putting sexual innuendo in a children's show is kind of outlandish.

The paper is edited and published by Falwell. “He is purple—the gay pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle—the gay pride symbol. The British show aimed at toddlers began airing on U. Rice said Falwell was attacking "something sweet and innocent" to further his conservative political agenda.