We should write them to suggest an acceptably squeaky clean young pop band called the Ballet. And then imagine their confusion when they start bopping around their crazy person office, and the lyrics kick in. "Wait, was I just turned gay?"

Oooh, or some Xiu Xiu. Let's send 'em some Xiu Xiu, just to imagine the ten Christian pile up to turn off the stereo.

Hell, just send 'em the cover art for a Xiu Xiu album.

Has anyone suggested Franz Ferdinand yet? How about Magnetic Fields? (Or is that one too obvious?) For that matter, isn't a tad aphoristic to list the Village People?

In case any swankster readers know of any more gay bands...

"In Our effort to keep this list up to date we'd appreciate your help. If you know of a band that is Gay or propogating a Gay message please email us so we can update. Donnie is handling this his email is: donniedavies@gmail.com

The response is overwhelming. You guys know of a lot more Gay Bands than I do. I can't keep up. Hopefully soon we'll have it so you can add them by yourself."

All those noodle dancing Phish heads where heathen sodomites!

I'll take it further:

If Phish = Gay
and Mushroom chocolates = Phish
then mushroom chocolates are indeed the headiest items on the lot. Just like the wookie said!

Umm, guys, this is the list maker....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MRWqlf_8M8&eurl=

Upon reviewing that video, this whole thing almost has to be a joke...

They clearly forgot Madonna. The gayest of the gay turners.

I'm still waiting for the day where a man can sing his favorite Cole Porter song to a man that looks like Freddy Mercury while dressed as Madonna and not be accused of being gay!

The media has too long cherry picked bad apples out of a bunch and proclaimed them to be the face of Christianity. Donnie Davies is not a face of Christianity. Neither is Ted Haggard. Nor Tammy Faye Baker. If you want to know what Christians are like then look to your friends, family, and neighbors. Donnie Davies sings that God hates gays. God doesn't hate anyone. This gay music list, that Idolator felt the undesirable need to post, is only hurtful to gays and Christians. In the future I hope Merry Swankster will exercise more caution before posting such pantywaist propaganda.

"Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him." 1 John 3:15

In regards to caution before posting I will say this: This post should not be assumed to be anti-Christian. Nor do I think the tone of the comments should be seen that way. Clearly some people will look at this and say "There go those wingbat Jesus freaks again." But that was not the point behind posting.

Relevance to music, and the idiotic claim that music will turn you gay made this interesting and noteworthy. Coupled with a list of artists that nobody would tag as promoting gayness made it a no-brainer. If the list was limited to Scissor Sisters, Village People, and Madonna I don't think we would be talking about it. I think MS readers are intelligent enough to know that this Donnie Davies character does not represent most Christians.

I take issue with the "propaganda" comment and the "cherry picked bad apples" as well. The names you mentioned have notoriety because they all fell on their faces and were very publicly exposed as hypocrites. Therein lies the problem with advocacy and preaching (both secular and spiritual preaching). If you preach and get caught doing the opposite, you will be laughed at and ridiculed. Do others get unfairly grouped and stereotyped along with the fallen? Absolutely, but that's life.

Everything is relevant to the source in what may appear to be a double standard. Rev. Ted Haggard's disgraced outing and alleged meth use carries much more weight to the public than an Elton John coming out of the closet due to the Reverend's longtime stance as a crusader against the "gay agenda." Now, if Elton John renounced his homosexuality tomorrow and became an anti-gay advocate, I assure you it will be big news.

I appreciate the healthy discussion that this instigated and welcome additional comments.

I apologize if any comments were seen in an insensative nature.

A better example of a Christian media outlet commenting on popular culture is pluggedinonline.com. Sure, it has its batshit crazy moments that we all know and love, and often times the site needlessly focuses on albums that don't need the negative attention, but for the most part, the reviews seem to have their hearts in the right place, and the reviewers seem genuinely interested in finding good music. In my experience, most Christians and the media groups they run will pan any art that isn't explicitely pro-Christianity. While Plugged In certain favors those sorts of work, it will also credit music and art that contains universal positives that can be found in any religion.

The list just shows how out-of-touch with reality religion makes people. The whole reasoning is illogical: Gay people listen to these groups a lot. Therefore, listening to these groups make people gay. That's a fallacy of logic called "Post hoc, ergo propter hoc." It's equivalent to thinking, "Since I see firefighters at every house fire, if we got rid of the fire departments, there would be no fires."

I find the whole site where the list came from to be completely laughable, too.

Jason Black

The entire thing appears to be an elaborate hoax. Not sure where the payoff is, but alas.

You guys are crazy. Your born with homosexuality.
You can't just IGNORE homosexuality. Its really stupid.

It's like hating someone just because of the color of their skin.

All this shit is ridiculous!

And the award for achievement in not understanding sarcasm goes to...