Posted on 03/25/2002 4:22:03 AM PST by kattracks
(CNSNews.com) - Heather may have two mommies, but does the she own a copy of "Double Daddy"? According to Girlfriends, a cultural magazine for lesbians, "Double Daddy works as an album that kids would actually want to listen to, largely because of its catchy, light tunes" while being "set in a happy and openly gay environment."
But nothing on Double Daddy's packaging suggests to its intended listeners ages 4-10 that the CD focuses mainly on homosexuality.
Molly Universe said she wants her music to expose the children of same-sex parents to their sexual orientation and lifestyle. However, she acknowledged there are no sexual content warnings on the CD.
"Maybe I should have put some warnings," Universe said, "but I guess it's a risk that I'm willing to take because to me, it's an innocent project."
Universe said there are "so many kids out there who struggle with issues that they're not allowed to talk about in school." She believes it is her "job just to increase awareness."
Double Daddy's lyrics weren't written solely for same-sex partners and their children. In fact, Universe said her original intention for the CD was to make a greater effort to "target" non-homosexual families to increase "awareness."
Universe refused to comment to CNSNews.com on her own sexual orientation, stating, "I've gotten myself into trouble recently identifying myself as anything on websites because I work with kids."
However, in an interview featured on Lesbianation.com, Universe said, "I'm gay, I'm a musician, I love kids." Lesbianation.com bills itself as the leading online community dedicated to the celebration of lesbian culture and identity.
Homosexual 'Awareness' Music
The lyrics to Double Daddy's title track leave no doubt about how many daddies Danny has. "Danny has a daddy and a daddy at home -- It's a double double daddy and he's never alone." And, according to the song, "when you double the daddy ... you double the fun."
Another song, "Oh What a Mess (Billy's wearing a dress)," is simply about "a little boy who likes to wear a dress," Universe said.
"I think the idea there is that it's not a bad idea to wear a dress, but the institution says it is, so you just have to be careful about what you do," Universe said. "You know, we don't generally like boys to wear dresses to school and it's the rule, but no one really knows why it's the rule, so Billy chose to test the rule."
But she noted that not every song has a message.
"There are four or five songs that have clear and distinct messages about sexuality and refer to gay parents or refer to children who may be gay," Universe said. "You know, it just alludes to it. It doesn't necessarily say it."
The album's "Tolerance" song does not make any reference to homosexuality. The lyrics for the song read, "We all have a different family, it doesn't mean that you're better than me. You've got to like the difference, and that's what we call tolerance."
'Tolerance' in the Classroom
Universe said she's sent free copies of her CD to approximately 30 "gay-friendly" public schools across the country as well as public libraries. "I haven't heard from anyone, so as far as I know, they're not being used, although I'd love for them to be."
But that hasn't stopped Universe, a teacher by profession, from performing some of the songs found on Double Daddy in the classrooms of high schools and elementary schools. She did say she does not perform the songs that talk about sexuality.
"Sometimes I sing Tolerance," Universe said. "Tolerance is kind of an innocent song ... but I reserve that for a more liberal school."
Homosexual Propaganda?
Dr. Paul Cameron, director of the Family Research Institute in Colorado Springs, Colo., said Universe is using the Double Daddy CD to "propagandize" for the "gay faith." He defined the "gay faith" as a "religion without God."
Cameron said the homosexual faith "wants people to declare, to walk the sawdust trail, and in public say, 'I am a homosexual. I'm gay. I'm part of this movement that thinks that whatever we do is super.'" And, he added, "They want to drag the kids with them."
The sawdust trail is a reference to the religious gatherings that famed evangelist Billy Sunday began organizing more than a hundred years ago. Participants would walk up the sawdust-covered aisles of structures that had just been built specifically for the event, to shake Sunday's hand.
In the 21st century, some adults are using "poster children to promote their particular angle on sexuality," Cameron said. "That's obviously what the CD is about."
And, he believes the pro-homosexual lyrical content of the Double Daddy CD is "abusing children in the interests of a sexual movement."
Homosexual activists, Cameron said, "want their kids to advertise for them; they want to advertise; they want to dress strangely so that everybody knows." And that, he said, "is just a terrible burden to place on a child." But he said homosexual activists "want you to know about it, baby."
Expanding Universe
Molly Universe said she hopes to produce more music for kids because her plan has always been "to educate kids and to educate parents about certain controversial topics, but to try to do it as least controversial as I can."
"I'd be happy to do anything related to kids and sexuality," Universe said of her future recordings. "I'm a teacher, myself, so it interests me."
Simple explanations for Simpletons. Pay no attention that encouraging and or accepting this kind of behavior is both anti-social and conducive to the destructive conduct that is homosexuality.
Tommy's folks go both ways
And dress up like each other
When Tommy gets picked up at school
He's not sure which is mother
F YOU'RE GAY, LESBIAN OR BISEXUAL, YOU'RE IN GOOD COMPANY
Roberta Achtenberg (President Clinton appointee),
Edward Albee (playwright),
Alexander the Great (Emperor),
Pedro Almodovar (film director),
Sasha Alyson (publisher),
W.H. Auden (writer),
Sir Francis Bacon (writer),
Joan Baez (musician),
Josephine Baker (singer),
James Baldwin (writer),
Tammy Baldwin (Wisconsin state legislator),
Deborah Batts (federal judge),
Amanda Bearse (actress),
Andy Bell (musician),
Ruth Benedict (anthropologist),
Michael Bennett (choreographer),
Sandra Bernhardt (comic),
David Bowie (musician),
Rev. Malcolm Boyd (Episcopal priest),
Keith Boykin (President Clinton aide),
Benjamin Britten (composer),
Glenn Burke (pro baseball player),
Frank Buttino (former FBI agent),
Lord Byron (poet),
Julius Caesar (Emperor),
Margarethe Cammermeyer (National Guard Colonel),
Willa Cather (writer),
Jean Cocteau (artist),
Colette (writer),
Aaron Copland (composer),
Chief Crazy Horse,
George Cukor (film director),
James Dean (actor),
Lea DeLaria (comedian),
Melissa Etheridge (musician),
Angie Fa (San Francisco board of education),
Harvey Fierstein (playwright),
Will Fitzpatrick (Rhode Island state senator),
Errol Flynn (actor),
E.M. Forster (writer),
Congressman Barney Frank,
Frederick the Great (Emperor),
David Geffen (music producer),
Sir John Gielgud (actor),
Tim Gill (founder of Quark, Inc.),
Allen Ginsberg (poet),
Lorraine Hansberry (playwright),
Sherry Harris (Seattle city council),
Bruce Hayes (Olympic swimmer),
Janis Ian (musician),
Indigo Girls (musicians),
Bob Jackson-Paris (pro bodybuilder),
Henry James (writer),
King James I,
Elton John (musician),
Frieda Kahlo (artist),
David Kopay (pro football player),
Sheila James Kuehl (attorney and former TV actress),
Tony Kushner (playwright),
k.d. lang (musician),
Simon LeVay (biologist),
Leonardo da Vinci (artist),
Frederico Garcia Lorca (poet),
Greg Louganis (Olympic diver),
Amy Lowell (poet),
Ian McKellen (actor),
John J. McNeill (religious scholar),
W. Somerset Maugham (writer),
Keith Meinhold (Navy officer),
Michelangelo (artist),
Edna St. Vincent Millay (poet),
Yukio Mishima (writer),
Martina Navratilova (tennis champion),
Georgia O'Keefe (artist),
Dave Pallone (former baseball umpire),
Phranc (folksinger),
Plato (philosopher),
Deb Price (newspaper columnist),
Marcel Proust (writer),
Kenneth Reeves (mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts),
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt,
RuPaul (supermodel),
Bayard Rustin (civil rights activist),
Sappho (poet),
Dick Sargent (actor),
May Sarton (writer),
Franz Schubert (composer),
Randy Shilts (journalist),
Bessie Smith (singer),
Socrates (philosopher),
Jimmy Sommerville (singer),
Joseph Steffan (Navy officer),
Gertrude Stein (writer),
Congressman Gerry Studds,
Peter Tchaikovsky (composer),
Dorothy Thompson (journalist),
Alice B. Toklas (writer),
Gore Vidal (writer),
Tom Waddell (Olympic decathelete),
Andy Warhol (artist),
Walt Whitman (writer),
Oscar Wilde (writer),
Tennessee Williams (playwright),
B.D. Wong (actor),
Virginia Woolf (writer),
Wu (Chinese Emperor),
Babe Didrikson Zaharias (pro golfer),
Joe Zuniga (former Army sergeant)
My comment: No authentication listed.
This puts "I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener" in an entirely new light.
This propagandist would do us a "universal" service were she to publish all of the homosexual friendly schools she is aware of. It would certainly be very helpful to concerned, moral, caring parents in their quest to make an assessment of which schools NOT to consider for their children.
Never mind the content: I'll bet you two Big Gay Al dolls the music sucks major root stand-alone. Otherwise this wouldn't be much of a story because there's plenty of homosexual music for kids out there already: N'Sync, Backstreet Boys, 99/100 songs you hear on your typical "Jam'n" top 40 station . . .What ever happened to GOOD queer music like The Smiths, or New Order?
I'm sure in the universe of Ms. Universe, Adolph just had a different way of showing affection.......in this case by murdering millions.
She should have her teacher's license revoked immediately for bringing her homosexual propaganda into the classroom!
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