Ah. Sesame Street. Thank goodness! I came in afraid this was regarding It’s a Wonderful Life.
Then let’s just not consider gayness to be a moral issue. Solved.
Like the majority, I favor a new character rather than retconning the old ones. I read recently that the creators intended for B&E to show that 2 people who were different from each other could still be friends, which is cool, but 2 people who are different from, but still friends with, everyone else is a separate, albeit still cool, message, IMHO.
Having an episode in which Bert and Ernie died, went to heaven, and God told them that there was nothing wrong with being gay, would be taking a religious position.
Just having a gay couple exist on the show is not.
Larry Mudd, I DID go watch the video you provided, and found myself analyzing what Bert and Ernie were up to in that bed going behind the clouds. 
I agree with your left-handed analogy, knowing how my uncle was forced to learn righthandedness. I was able to just write left-handed without interference. Your brother has my sincere sympathy and I appreciate your well stated post.
I’m pretty sure that Bert is gay and Ernie is straight. Didn’t Avenue Q address this in their production? It’s clear that the Rod character is Bert and his roommate Nicky is Ernie.
People using a kid’s show for their own social agendas? Quite sad, I must say. Sesame Street is fine the way it is. No need to add elements that don’t need to be added.
I think they should introduce a pair of fifty-year-old lesbians. Nobody has a problem with fifty-year-old lesbians.
Pitcher and catcher?
Can’t we let children be children? Do we have to sexualize everything?
Bert and Ernie are characters for pre school children. They are puppets. They have zero sexual identity. Nor should they.
Next thing you know people will demand that Oscar start humping Big Bird. Geez…
What is “sexualized” by acknowledging that there are same-sex couples?
Was Sesame Street “sexualized” from the start by portraying Gordan and Susan as a couple? Part of the reason that they were shown to have an adopted child was in aid of lessening adopted children’s feelings of alienation by showing families like theirs in a familiar context. I think that a quiet acknowledgement of families that are different can go some ways to toward “letting kids be kids.” Somewhere between eight and ten million kids in the U.S. have gay parents.
Sesame Street has been all about supporting kids from different circumstances and cultivating respect and tolerance between people with differences from its initial conception - and this has frequently been a source of controversy.
I suppose somebody should point out that if Sesame Street did create a same-sex couple, the Republicans would tell PBS that its government funding will be eliminated if it doesn’t stop airing Sesame Street.
This is EXACTLY why it won’t happen! :rolleyes:
So, exactly when do you return kids to their parents in your world, if they have to be protected from anything that’s touched sexuality.
I might pay to see that.