‘My Little Pony’ is Indoctrinating your Kids to Normalize Homosexual Sin
*Please note: All the links and references in this article are from pro-LGBT sources and publications.
I recently discovered that my 7-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son started watching the My Little Pony TV series. Recollecting the benign toys and shows from my childhood in the 90s, I didn’t think much of it at first. But something, other than the nauseating hot pink colors and oversaturated rainbows, was making me feel uneasy about this new iteration of the franchise, so I decided to look into it. (Maybe this has already been called out before by others and I’m just woefully oblivious; or maybe it’s just because my kids are at that age they’re starting to watch this stuff, so I’m now noticing.) Sadly, as I suspected, under the guise of cute fantasy kids’ entertainment, the cartoon creators and producers are indoctrinating young children into accepting LGBT ideology. And no, it’s not just subtle inferences they’re including in the episodes; they’ve blatantly come out and stated their intent is to normalize homosexual relationships and identities.
To give you some background on the series: Hasbro produced a revamp series of the classic 80s & 90s shows called My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic from 2010 - 2019, which aired on platforms like Discovery Family, Netflix, and Hulu. Since then, they’ve released two additional series titled My Little Pony: Pony Life (2020-2021) and My Little Pony: Make Your Mark (2022-present). The series tells the stories and adventures of various ponies in the fictional world of “Equestria”. In the June, 2019 debut of the episode titled “The Last Crusade”, they featured their first same-sex couple; a lesbian couple named “Aunt Lofty and Aunt Holiday”, the aunts of the show character “Scootaloo”.
Michael Vogel, who is gay and a writer and producer of the show, said, “Nicole and I thought this was a great opportunity to organically introduce an LGBTQ couple in the series, and we asked Hasbro and they approved it. … With Josh and Nicole running the final season together, it was something we all wanted to do — bring this out couple into the final season and make them ‘officially’ a part of the MLP world”. Nicole Dubuc and Josh Haber are the showrunners who collaborated with him to introduce the openly gay characters. He further said, “Diversity and representation are important for kids for so many reasons, and it’s my first priority on everything I work on” (emphasis added; see full Buzzfeed article here). His tweet above portrays his clear aspirations for the show.
(Below are screenshots of posts off Michael Vogel’s and Katrina Hadley’s Twitter/X accounts.)
Since then, they have introduced more sexually-deviant characters into the series. One of the show creators, Katrina Hadley, confirmed on September 25, 2019, that they made the character “Sunset Shimmer” bisexual. Karmyn, who goes by @SnookumsGal on Twitter, another MLP creator, confirmed that the characters “Diggy” and “Sanders”, both male ponies, are a same-sex couple, and have an adopted son named “Ferris”.. They’re portrayed in the latest season of the show, My Little Pony: Make Your Mark.
Needless to say, as soon as I found all this out, I immediately worked on blocking this show for my kids. I told my daughter that she and her brother can’t watch that anymore because of “bad stuff” in the show. And, as every kid would, she questioned, “Why? What bad stuff?” Her little innocent mind couldn’t comprehend how this seemingly cute cartoon could be showing anything bad. But this left me in a predicament. Do I seem to impose some arbitrary restriction on my children, coming across as an authoritarian dictator without giving any reasoning as to why we wouldn’t want them watching that show? Or do I be honest with them and explain to them in as simple terms as possible what bad stuff the creators had included in the series? The Spirit guided me to do the latter.
Thank God, for the past several years, Tefany and I followed the prompting to frequently teach our children from an early age their identities as a daughter and son of Heavenly Parents. (As a side note, please understand that I’m not trying to present myself as some “perfect parent”; I fail and fall short constantly with almost everything; but, in this one thing, I think Tefany and I have done well.) We constantly base our gospel lessons and scripture reading on the core doctrine that boys are made in the image of Heavenly Father and girls in the image of Heavenly Mother, and that our goal in life is to follow their example: be sealed in a man-woman marriage, follow Jesus and keep his commandments, and then we can go back to the celestial kingdom to become deified with them and enjoy an eternal family with them. They know that there is no other way that they can become like our Heavenly Parents than to follow this path.
“In Their Image” by Caitlin Connolly
So again, I used this as the basis when I went to address this difficult topic with my daughter about the perversions being taught in her cartoon show. I asked her if she remembered how we become like our Heavenly Parents and who boys and girls are created after. She said, “Yes”. Then I asked her if she remembered how Satan rebelled against the Father and he and his angels were cast down to the earth. Again, she said, “Yes”. Then we discussed how Satan and his angels try to deceive God’s children to believe wrong things that go against God’s teachings, so that he can keep them from going back to heaven. I explained how Satan wants us to rebel against God as well, and that many people who are deceived think that they’re doing the right thing, but they’re unknowingly cutting themselves off from God’s presence. (This is the general gist of what we discussed. In reality, it was longer, and the language dumbed down for her understanding.)
Then, I explained how Satan tries to convince some people to believe that two men or two women can get married, and I asked her how she feels about that. I explained that the cartoon she’s been watching has characters who are portrayed as being in same-sex relationships/marriages. She looked at me with confusion and surprise—the wheels turning in her head—and she said something to the effect of, “But, they can never be able to have babies, like our Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother!” To me, it was amazing, that even at her early age, she intuitively knew that this evil doctrine of same-sex marriage is wholly incompatible with creating life and families, and that it negates our Father’s plan for us to become like him and Heavenly Mother. Considering this difficult information, my sweet daughter then agreed that this was not a good show to watch and said that she didn’t want to watch it anymore.
I felt incredibly proud at that moment to see my daughter choosing to use her agency for good. It was so rewarding for me to see that all the teaching Tefany and I had done previously was sticking to some degree with our children, and that the Spirit was helping them to form their own testimonies of the truth. But, it’s horribly tragic that at her tender, young age, I’ve already needed to explain to her about these perverted doctrines of men and devils, who are seeking to sway her from the gospel. It breaks my heart that her innocent mind is already starting to be exposed to such corrupt, evil concepts.
“Home” by Amber Eldredge
That same day, in lieu of My Little Pony, she started watching a new show called Centaurworld. I looked into that one too, and guess what, yep, I found out there’s a homosexual character in that series too—so infuriating! The character's name is “Splendib”, and he’s in a homosexual relationship another male centaur named, “Zulius”. I’m not going to go into a deep dive of that show as well, but needless to say, the Adversary is relentless in his attempts to deceive our children. He led my daughter from one perverted show to another. And if he’s doing it with my daughter, he’s of course doing his best with all children in this world.
How can we avoid all this evil messaging our children are being constantly bombarded with? This is something each of us can and must counsel together about to establish what’s best for our individual families. There’s no one-size-fits-all solution, but the Spirit can guide us to do what’s best.
Parents: Please, be mindful of what your littles ones are watching. I know we’re all so busy, rushing from here to there, and sometimes it’s just so convenient to give our kids an iPad and let them scroll on there so that they can stay out of our hair for a few minutes. Trust me, Tefany and I have been guilty of this many times; being too trusting, giving our kids screens when we’ve been busy at work, or cleaning, or trying to cook; trying to keep them entertained so that we can concentrate. I think there’s a time and place for it, but it’s too easy for the Adversary to take this opportunity to sneak perversion into our children’s gazes. There is spiritual warfare being fought over the souls of our children, and we need to do all that we can to protect their precious minds from being defiled. Parents, let’s be vigilant in defending our children against the pernicious doctrines of men mingled with scripture! Let’s do our best to keep our children pure and undefiled by the Adversary and his lies.
