SpongeBob and Patrick Star are two friends who live in the ocean, more precisely in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom, where they live plenty of adventures with their fellow sea creatures, like Eugene Krabs or Squidward Tentacles.
So what's wrong with that? Well, according to the Family Under the Protection of the Holy Virgin (sic), an Ukrainian group who lobbies for the protection of public morality, SpongeBob and his starfish friend are much more than friends… in fact, the Catholic group is convinced that they are a gay couple and thus damaging to children. They advocate that the cartoons should be banished from national TV because they are part of - no less - "'a large-scale experiment on Ukrainian children to create criminals and perverts", namely by "promoting homosexuality".
Even though Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of the animated series, has stated that his characters are asexual and that sexual preference was never considered during the creation of the series, this didn't convince the public morality protectors, who want SpongeBob and Patrick Star out of the screens.
I'd rather let my child watch all the SpongeBob episodes he wanted than spend 3 minutes alone with a member of the Family Under the Protection of the Holy Virgin.
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