SpongeBob, being both a sponge and a cartoon, uses the voice of East Syracuse native Tom Kenny to do his singing and Mr Kenny scoffed at the allegation.
SpongeBob" told the Post-Standard:
"I could maybe see it their way if this was a video with Barbra Streisand and Madonna and Judy Garland," Kenny said, a tongue-in-cheek reference to performers who supposedly have large gay followings. "We're talking about cartoon characters here, and these people are just trying to make a video that (says) it's a positive, good thing to be respectful of people different than you.
"Let me ask you, who would you rather go bowling with, SpongeBob and his friends or the Rev. James Dobson? Who would you rather go out with and have a few beers? Probably the only common ground I have with the Rev. James Dobson is that I haven't seen the video, and I'll bet he hasn't either. All he knows (Kenny dropped into an angry backwoods voice) is that it's a little yellow guy full of holes who's saying it's OK for men to be with men.
"It's very entertaining. The entertainment industry could use more people with that kind of wild imagination."
But that probably won't happen soon.
On the other hand, Mark Barondess, the foundation's lawyer, told the NYTimes that critics of the video "need medication."
