Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street? Not in Oklahoma

Last month, the Oklahoma House and Senate sent Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt what might seem the most innocuous bill imaginable—a bill to support the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority. However, despite the fact that the bill passed with the support of the Republican supermajority in both the state House and Senate, Stitt vetoed the bill.

His reason for doing so was exactly what you might expect in a time when “Sleeping Beauty” is getting pulled from library shelves for being “pornographic.” As CNN reports, the Oklahoma governor claimed that the state’s own educational television network “doesn't line up with Oklahoma values.” Stitt had some specific programs in mind when he made this claim. Among the content that he feels is far too racy for the children of Oklahoma is Sesame Street, Clifford the Big Red Dog, and Mister Rogers.

“I don’t think Oklahomans want to use their tax dollars to indoctrinate kids,” said Stitt. “And some of the stuff that they’re showing, it just overly sexualizes our kids.”