Goofus and Gallant

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This is an off-shoot from another thread on this forum “Book warning: A Bad Kitty Christmas” where a member calls to our attention another example of media being used to promote same-sex union propaganda.

In that thread I note that I would like to see a Catholic/Christian response to this propaganda in like form: for every 4 secular works of art used to promote that agenda, have at least 1 of the same media type demonstrating the Christian response to that agenda.

It called to mind the Highlights comic “Goofus and Gallant”


Showing my age, I loved going to the doctor’s or dentist’s office just to have the chance to run to the corner table for the current issue and would immediately flip toward the back to find this strip and the word games. I’m sure it has evolved since then.

That is the closest example of Christian propaganda I can come up with. Granted, my recollection is from a time when Christian values WERE American values. We are no longer in that setting, and I have no idea if G&G has used interacting with a person from a same-sex relationship in a strip to date.

I’m just suggesting now is a good time to start thinking about what an alternative children’s book to “A Bad Kitty Christmas” would look like and perhaps get the ball rolling on developing ways to guide us Catholics in the proper way to interact with people from same-sex relationships. How do we interact and engage without enabling, without accepting it as ‘normal’, and without withholding God’s love and compassion within that interaction?
 
If you really love them, you can do nothing other that tell them the plain truth. This plain truth is the catholic church teaching on same sex relations. It is grave matter and if you do not make it clear what the truth is, you may be complicit.
 
If you really love them, you can do nothing other that tell them the plain truth. This plain truth is the catholic church teaching on same sex relations. It is grave matter and if you do not make it clear what the truth is, you may be complicit.
Telling the truth is the easy part. Our nation legally recognizes same-sex relationships and families. The Catholic church knows relationships under that lifestyle will not bring happiness here, and will prohibit the parents from entering heaven.

Teaching them how to interact with people who they know are not living a good life for their souls, and what happens to the souls of the children who love and defend their same-sex parents is what I’m talking about. We know the souls of the children are protected until they make their own choices to engage in the same behaviors.

I can picture a Goofus and Gallant panel where kids in school are ignoring a child they know have same-sex parents and whispering behind his/her back. Goofus would probably be the one instigating the behavior or could be a participant. What would Gallant’s panel be? I would hope it would show Gallant telling the others to stop remarking like that and going over to the teased child.

From what I’ve read on the boards, though, I would expect that if that panel appeared in Highlights many here would call to have people boycott the magazine for jumping on the gay agenda propaganda machine.
 
Wow, Goofus and Gallant - I had no idea they were still being published, or that Highlights for Children is. I used to love that feature and the hidden images in the picture.

Sorry, not really relevant to the conversation, just nice to see them again.
 
I can picture a Goofus and Gallant panel where kids in school are ignoring a child they know have same-sex parents and whispering behind his/her back. Goofus would probably be the one instigating the behavior or could be a participant. What would Gallant’s panel be? I would hope it would show Gallant telling the others to stop remarking like that and going over to the teased child.

From what I’ve read on the boards, though, I would expect that if that panel appeared in Highlights many here would call to have people boycott the magazine for jumping on the gay agenda propaganda machine.
(1) I agree with your prediction on how a lot of the posters here would react. I doubt that they’d completely side with Goofus and support the teasing and wish it was Gallant doing it. But they wouldn’t want Gallant to do anything to stop it either.

(2) And I sure hope Gallant would help the teased child or at least not join in on the teasing. When I was at that age and saw other little boys being teased I never joined in with it because I knew teasing was not the right thing to do.
 
(1) I agree with your prediction on how a lot of the posters here would react. I doubt that they’d completely side with Goofus and support the teasing and wish it was Gallant doing it. But they wouldn’t want Gallant to do anything to stop it either.

(2) And I sure hope Gallant would help the teased child or at least not join in on the teasing. When I was at that age and saw other little boys being teased I never joined in with it because I knew teasing was not the right thing to do.
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Follow-up to my own post:

Goofus and Gallant in action:

(1) Goofus’ friend is about to shoot a basketball and two other kids are making fun of him. Goofus joins in and laughs with them.

(2) But Gallant takes the initiative and tells the other kids it’s not right to make fun of his friend.

And even more relevant:

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As the other poster predicted, here’s Goofus teasing a kid for his hairstyle, and Gallant being nice to the girl being teased for wearing glasses.
 
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