But I'm also not a guy who defines his life only in terms of legal rights and obligations: If (as I mentioned to them) Fred were to let me know that he didn't like the site, I would voluntarily remove it out of respect and affection for him. So, a while later, I received this cursory letter (almost certainly drafted by the aforementioned attorneys) co-signed by Fred Rogers, asking me to take it down.

I'm extremely disappointed that Fred Rogers felt that way and demonstrated so little humor, especially given that I had taken pains to keep the parody from being indecent or offensive. But, hey, I had given my word, and I do genuinely esteem Fred Rogers (whose television Neighborhood I visited for countless hours when I was a young boy). So, I took the site down. In my interior, psychic battle between the macho lawyer persona and the demands of the Sermon on the Mount, the latter won. And I suppose that Fred's gentle, formative influence might have had something to do with that...