Does God Love Michael’s Two Daddies?

Here’s another example of Christian homophobia turning comedy. Sheila K. Butt (I hope for Ms Butt’s sake it’s a pseudonym) has written a children’s book entitled Does God Love Michael’s Two Daddies? The publisher, Apologetics Press, says this about the book on their website:

For the last 15 years, the homosexual community has been publishing children’s books promoting homosexuality, starting with the book Heather Has Two Mommies. Other books such as Daddy’s Roommate and My Two Uncles have followed suit. To our knowledge, no comparable children’s book designed to combat the promotion of homosexuality is available on the market—until now. Does God Love Michael’s Two Daddies? is a professionally designed and illustrated book that promotes God’s love for all individuals, while at the same time showing, in a loving way, that homosexuality is wrong. This book has tremendous potential to positively influence the lives of thousands of children growing up in tumultuous and confusing times.

Hurrah! Finally a book for parents who want to teach their kids to pass judgement on other people based on their sexuality. I mean, what would the world be like if people accepted each other for what they are. We can’t have that.

A reviewer at Amazon seems to get it:

Perhaps Ms. Butts can publish a coloring book with Michael’s Two Daddies burning for eternity in the fire lake of Hell? I would have to buy my kids more red and orange crayons, but the lesson that homosexuals are lesser humans is worth the expense.

I second that. We all want the best for our children, right?

A jovial reader posted this review on the publisher’s webiste:

I am in education and see the trend of teaching tolerance to our young people and this scares me. Fortunately, I am in a school district where these views are not pushed on our children, yet they are still exposed to these ideas in the shows on TV and movies which come out. Myself and some of the other teachers have been looking for a book with a Christian view of homosexuality and I was excited when I picked up my copy of Reason and Revelation to find this book. I ordered it and have shared it with some of my friends. We appreciate the straightforward, scriptural approach to the topic. We may not be able to share it with our children in the classroom, but we can share it with our own chilren, who can then take these teachings to school.

I share her anger. School is not a place for tolerance. Small children should learn condemnation from an early age so they can grow up to be ignorant adults—like Ted Haggard before he began experimenting with rent boys.

By the way, the answer is no. God doesn’t love Michael’s two daddies because they love each other, and that’s bad.

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