On CNN, commentators questioned Snoop Dogg’s reaction to Pixar’s Lightyear. In the film, Pixar showed a same-sex kiss and also portrayed the two women, Alisha Hawthorne and her wife, raising a boy together. CNN anchor Jake Tapper even cited criticism from TS Madison, a television personality and LGBTQ+ activist, who asked:
“Why is it okay for Snoop to have women kissing in his videos, but not in the Buzz Lightyear film?”
Of course, no one on CNN seemed able to point out the distinction.
But the difference is obvious. Pixar’s Lightyear was marketed straight at kids. Snoop’s rap, by contrast, comes with Parental Advisory: Explicit Content warnings for language, drugs, sex, and violence. Everyone should know Snoop’s rap brand is not for children, while Pixar’s brand is for kids. That’s the whole point CNN ignored.
One CNN panelist said:
“Look, there’s been a lot of talk of Hollywood shoving social change down our throats. I don’t know if that’s all true or not.”
He may act uncertain, but parents don’t need CNN to tell them what’s obvious: Hollywood is using children’s films to push social change and even politics.
Then ex-Fox News host Gretchen Carlson chimed in:
“As a former Sunday school teacher, uh, from young kids all the way up to 6th and 7th, which was the most challenging. You know, the Bible, I’m just gonna tell you it has a lot of sex in it. Okay. And there were many times where I would get to a particular passage and I’d be like, I’m actually maybe not gonna say this right now. And then I’d say, go home and ask your parents.”
Tapper: “The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is pretty, pretty bad.”
Carlson: “I can relate to Papa.”
Carlson said, I can relate to Papa — meaning Papa Snoop.
But what’s really “pretty, pretty bad” is that CNN treats this as news, and that Carlson highlighted the Bible’s sexual passages in the same breath as a Pixar kids’ cartoon.
As a former Sunday school teacher, Carlson should know which parts of the Bible are warnings for adults, not stories to read to kids at Sunday school. Her role should have been to guide children in moral basics like honesty, kindness, respect, love, and obeying God’s commandments. She could have focused on clear, uplifting lessons like: The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20): basic rules for living rightly. Jesus Loves the Little Children (Matthew 19): showing God’s special love for kids. The Beatitudes (Matthew 5): teaching humility, kindness, and peace. And the Fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5): love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Those are the lessons kids need.
Instead, Carlson — who claimed she had taught Sunday school — said “the Bible has a lot of sex in it” without any context, handing CNN exactly the kind of dramatic, overblown soundbite they could spotlight to blur the issue and distract from the real debate.
Hollywood has enormous influence through movies, and parents are asking whether those films should be used to push cultural and political messages. Maybe it’s time children’s cartoons and movies carry clearer content warnings — just like Snoop’s rap does — or at the very least, honest write-ups before a film is released so parents know what they’re walking into.
Whether people view the same-sex kiss and two moms raising a boy as harmless representation or as social messaging, one thing is clear: CNN turned it into a spectacle. Instead of debating Hollywood’s role in children’s movies, they gave airtime to ex-Fox News host Gretchen Carlson talking about Bible sex. That’s not serious analysis — that’s distraction.