this is what happens when you put me on a track to a law degree...

from this article:

Education Secretary Margaret Spellings denounced an episode of children's TV series "Postcards from Buster" in which its rabbit star Buster Baxter is shown visiting a lesbian couple and their children.

"Many parents would not want their young children exposed to the lifestyles portrayed in this episode," Spellings wrote to the president of PBS, shortly after her appointment. The secretary was previously an adviser to the White House.

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A number of Christian conservatives expressed appreciation for the government's position.

One such was "Focus on the Family" director James Dobson, who also caused a stir recently when he raised concerns about a video, due for release March 11 to children in 61,000 elementary schools, to celebrate the proposed 'National We Are Family Day.'

Dobson claims the video's sponsors, The We Are Family Foundation, has a pro-homosexual agenda, using a host of cartoon characters, such as SpongeBob SquarePants, Big Bird and Winnie The Pooh, to infiltrate schools with their message.

Dobson said on his internet site that comments he made about the video at a 2005 Presidential Inaugural dinner were "about the way in which those childhood symbols are apparently being hijacked to promote an agenda that involves teaching homosexual propaganda to children."

i posted earlier that my group in patent litigation is using the eHarmony patent as the central focus in our litigation project.

soon after starting research i discovered that the people behind Focus on the Family was also behind eHarmony.

now, i ain't no grinch. if you want to build a site for christian singles, please, by all means, go ahead.

but what does a patent do?

A patent prevents any other person or entity from producing, using or marketing the patented invention for 20 years. It give the patent holder a 20 year monopoly on the invention.

although the spec mentions that the method they employ "may" use the orientation of users as empirical data, they have no obligation to do so. since these people are virulently and insanely anti-gay (if you think i'm trippin', please scroll up and look at the buster bunny and sponge bob quote), they will probably never agree to it. and if they want to prevent other sites from employing the same method, which, by the way, is pretty broad, for same sex couples, they can.

but really, i don't care very much for the effects of this patent; i just don't like Focus on the Family, and i want to screw with them.

listen, focus on the family... i'm going to do as much research as possible to invalidate your patent. i don't get why it wasn't considered "obvious," but hey... i'm going to have a little fun with you people. *snicker*