FALL OUT BOY? COME OUT BOYS, MORE LIKE.

We hadn't cared much for Fall Out Boy this far, but judging by how fuming they've managed to make a parent who took her little cherubs to one of their gigs - in Charlotte North Carolina, apparently - we might need to look at them again:

An angry parent has written an email to Fall Out Boy's label, Island Def Jam Records, after taking her daughters to see the band last Tuesday (May 2) in Charlotte, North Carolina. The woman wrote that she was enraged by bassist Pete Wentz's "personal political testimony" onstage, complaining that "the ticket said 'all ages,' and your band was very foul-mouthed and anti-morals. Charlotte is not the demoralized city that liberal San Francisco and other cities across the North and West are...this was a concert, not some liberal homosexual rally."

The woman promised to contact national news organizations and other venues where Fall Out Boy would be playing, claiming that the band would lose "a lot of financial support" as a result. She concluded, "Your responsibility was to sing your songs. When you opened your mouth to talk, you blew it...By the way, my children will not be a part of your sick idea of family."

And what form did this "liberal, homosexual rally" take? Pete Wentz says:

"The only thing I said in Charlotte was, 'You can leave this show and say, ‘I think this guy is an arrogant jerk,’ or think, ‘This band is better than this one,’ because these are your opinions. The only thing we consider unacceptable is for you to engage in sexist, racist or homophobic behavior. If you do, we don't want you as a fan.'"

Well, you can see how such San Franciscan talk would play so badly in Charlotte. It's virtually as if he sodomised the entire audience, at once, with cheeses.

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