"Puppet Cleavage" too much for Colorado Springs

[kpete]

Puppet cleavage too hot for the religious right in Colorado Springs.

Avenue Q Avenue Q is a Tony-winning musical about people and puppets trying to find their way in New York City. Though inspired by the style of Sesame Street, the show deals with “adult situations” like sex and drinking, and one of its most popular songs is “The Internet is for Porn.” The musical is now coming to conservative Colorado Springs, but a billboard executive in the city has banned a promotional poster showing puppet cleavage because the company wants to take a more “conservative approach.” Colorado Springs is home to right-wing organizations like Focus on the Family and has become “a base from which the evangelical movement launches initiatives that affect civic life across the nation.” Disgraced pastor Ted Haggard, for example, set up his megachurch there. The ad that will instead be running in Colorado Springs shows the face of a blue puppet named Rod — a Republican who is a closeted gay puppet in love with his best friend.



Update: The site Momlogic writes, "Hold the phone people. If we're going to start censoring puppet's naughty pillows (ironically made out of some of the same materials as actual pillows), there is another culprit that's been appealing to our prurient interests since 1969. Kermit the Frog has been appearing sans clothes for decades. Hope he's not planning a vacation to Colorado Springs anytime soon, or they'll run his little green ass out of town!"

more:
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/25/puppet-cleavage/

[kudzu22]

1. That's hot

[MineralMan]

2. Well, Jessica Rabbit was hot. I suppose they'd ban her, too.

Colorado Springs is a collective moron.

[KittyWampus]

3. A cloth doll sculptor I know had an anatomically correct female doll on display in a museum

that was having a show featuring cloth sculptures.

Imagine a goddess type, very tasteful and fairly realistic. After some protests, it was deemed unacceptable for the public even though there were naked marble and bronze torsos and paintings depicting nude scenes.

IIRC, it was in Ohio.

[woodsprite]

4. What do you get when you have a little green ball in each hand?

Kermit the frogs FULL attention!

Bah-dum-bump!!!

[old mark]

5. People who are sexually concerned about the cleavage of pink furry pig

puppets obviously need some form of therapy.

Do they smoke a lot of pot in Colorado or not enough?


mark

[hlthe2b]

6. Hello... ! This the Springs... don't extend the idiocy to all of CO

It is only because of the beauty of PIke's Peak that we haven't ceded those morons to Texas.

... Oops, late for my appointment at one of our gazillion medical pot dispensaries... ;)

[old mark]

9. Yeah, I understand you are not ALL bad.

Good luck with your "condition".....:hippie:


mark

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. I thought it was Boehner's ass crack in a tanning booth.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. If they're offended by cleavage, they probably won't be buying tickets for Avenue Q!

[Javaman]

10. Someone needs to do a puppet version of "Fritz the Cat" for

Colorado Springs.

:rofl:

[niyad]

11. you know, I have been waiting for the next bit of stupidity here--last week, it was the city

screwing the laid-off bus drivers for their sick pay and vacation pay, after closing the parks and community centers.

this week-- puppet cleavage. this, of course, is the same community that got all weird about that cartoon character sponge bob

it is embarrassing to admit I currently live here. please don't blame me, I have nothing to do with this nonsense. and I am not alone.

[Echo In Light]

12. Man, they'd really freak over Peter Jackson's early film, Meet The Feebles