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Category: Book
Author: Butt, Sheila K.
Publisher: Apologetics Press, Inc.
Studio: Apologetics Press, Inc.
Manufacturer: Apologetics Press, Inc.
Label: Apologetics Press, Inc.
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 16
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.1 x 0.3
ISBN: 0932859941
EAN: 9780932859945
ASIN: 0932859941
Publication Date: March 1, 2007
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In a world that is constantly changing, Gods Word remains the standardby which we must judge all human actions and lifestyles. In Does God LoveMichaels Two Daddies?, Seth and Sara learn that God loves all people, eventhose who are disobeying Him. But they also learn that the only way to havea relationship with God is to stop sinning and turn to JesusFor the last 15 years, the homosexual community has been publishing childrensbooks promoting homosexuality, starting with the book Heather HasTwo Mommies, Daddys Roommate, and My Two Uncles. To our knowledge, no comparable childrens book designed to combat the promotion of homosexuality is available on the marketuntil now. Does God Love Michaels Two Daddies? is a professionally designed and illustrated book that promotes Gods love for all individuals, while at the same time showing, in a loving way, that homosexuality is out of harmony with Bible teaching. This book has tremendous potential to influence positively the lives of thousands of children growing up in tumultuous and confusing times.
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 Best and only kids' book on homos! November 18, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I haven't read this book. I just feel sorry for the author
being trashed by others who haven't read the book. By the
Amazon ranking, though, it doesn't appear that the reviews
are hurting sales. Thanks for giving kids an alternative to
homosexual indoctrination. Now please get this book into
every library across the nation!
 Gay AND inter-racial? August 6, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Michael's daddies are finding new ways to sin and make their way to hell! First they get to go because they are gay, then they get to go to a new level because we all know the races shouldn't ever "mix". Seriously though, I haven't bought this book, but if it is as well written as the editorial review, I think it wouldn't be worth digging it out of the trash to read. Ms. BUTT, you really should consider a pen name if you are going to write homophobic garbage. Just a thought.
 Is Sheila K. Butt as mad as a box of spanners? June 24, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Today, Sheila K. Butt is best-known for her bawdy sea shanties and a popular range of Old Testament, low-calorie shakes aimed at larger members of the congregation.
Few recall that she is also a self-published author with a large back catalogue of hilarious, Christian-based, parables written for feeble-minded simpletons.
For any Butt aficionado, her latest novel raises a number of interesting questions. Is Sheila K. a martyr to the Friends-of-Judy or is she as mad as a box of spanners? Does she have a borderline personality disorder or is she a troubled artist? Are the facets and dimensions of her writing mutually exclusive and do we care anyway?
These questions are important when comparing this work against her earlier output. Certainly 'Does God Love Michael's Two Daddies?' is a dense, stark example of Crypto-Modernism which encourages many layers of consideration - but where are her trademark laughs? Alas, they are buried beneath pages of bile-filled invective and overly-clever construction.
For example, Michael's bed-wetting at Uncle Ahmed's house and the resultant drowning of the pet newt, Gypo, is an allegorical parting of the Red Sea. When young Michael steals the suitcase containing the ashes of the transsexual Danish plumber we are being reminded of St. Michael's role as the Angel of Death carrying souls to heaven.
In the end, you cannot escape the conclusion that, despite its multiple meanings, the intense content of this book is less satisfying than her earlier work 'Does God Love the Stinky French?' a scratch 'n' sniff collection of letters to her estranged, Paris-based daughter prior to her fatal overdose. Even the excessively sanitised pop-up edition of the sunny 'Does God Love Darkies?' is, by comparison, wittier and more joyful for the average Christian reader.
I would heartily recommend either of these books as better starting points for those keen to explore Butt's bountiful oeuvre.
Great Book.... If you like to brainwash children! April 8, 2008
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
It's the responsibility of the oppressor to end the oppression. If some whites had not had the balls to say that blacks should vote, the process would have taken much longer. Those people who stood up for what is right are heroes just like the blacks who voted when it was risking their lives. The same is true with almost every case of oppression of the minority, when a few members of the majority have the balls to stand up and say "this is wrong" things start to change. Unfortunately you don't do that in church.
Organized religion is the one place where the oppression is unlikely to end any time soon, because to be a Christian, Jew, Muslim, etc. means you subjugate yourself and believe what you are told, even though there is tremendous physical evidence against it. Are Christians standing up and making their voices heard? Are they shouting down the pastors who p;reach hate? No.
And until they do, I can not respect them. Until they stand up for what they know is right, against the few fundamentalists who preach hatred and intolerance, I can not respect them. The next time you hear someone slam Christianity, don't feel persecuted, just stop and think about why that person dislikes your religion so much and think about things you might be able to do to help your religion join the rest of the world.
The "Christian Right" is neither.
I bought and read this book (ugh!) October 27, 2007
90 out of 94 found this review helpful
"Does God Love Michael's Two Daddies?" by Sheila K. Butt, contrasts twins Seth and Sarah, secure and content in their normal, hetero, white Christian family, with Michael, the son of an unstable, interracial, gay couple. Seth and Sarah mindlessly wend their way through the story, trained as they are to view difference as confusing and wrong, and their own lives as a standard of normalcy. The title, "Does God Love Michael's Two Daddies?," is the linguistic hook on which the author hangs her religious condemnation of homosexuality, but it also illustrates that these two godly children really are not certain that their God does love someone different from them. Did Seth's and Sarah's Christian parents fail to teach them that God loves everybody, or have Seth and Sarah learned from their parents' behavior that God finds some more lovable than others?
How does the author reconcile the condemnation of homosexuality with the concept of a loving God? She makes three valiant, if vain, attempts. First, she depicts a heterosexual home as happy, secure, and God-approved, as opposed to the instability of a gay home. Second, she attempts to show that the issue of gay marriage negatively affects the children of both homosexual and heterosexual families. Christian children are affected negatively because gay marriage confuses them, in other words, it makes them question their parents' values. Third, she skirts the issue of what Christians actually believe will happen to Michael's parents when they don't end up in Heaven.
Poor little Michael, the unwitting friend of Christian clones Seth and Sarah. Michael is depicted three times by the illustrator, in all instances alienated from his Christ-loving friends, a fearful grimace of uncertainty plastered on his face. In the first illustration Michael's security is derailed when he learns that normal families have a mom and a dad, not two dads. In the second illustration an anxious Michael waves goodbye to Seth and Sarah who stand beside their loving mother. Michael waves from the back of a bus. Apparently children of gay, interracial couples are bussed to this school district, while hetero Christian moms pick up their children. In the third illustration Michael cowers behind the chair in which Black Dad sits, as Black Dad reads the Bible, presumably Leviticus, to White Dad. Indifferent White Dad turns his back on both of them to sip a latte out of a large purple mug. Perhaps it is dawning on Michael that the Bible is going to break up his home, and that his future in a God-ordained world is less than certain.
Across the ideological tracks, hetero Christian Dad explains to Seth and Sarah that God designed marriage to be between a man and a woman. Christian Dad continues, "But in this world there are some men who want to live together like they are married."
LIKE they are married. Like a fake marriage, fake parents, a fake home.
It's conceivable that Michael is the biological son of gay White Dad, or even gay Black Dad, but it's more likely, given Christian antipathy to gay adoption, that he's the adopted son of at least one of his fathers. What the author implies is that Michael's family is only LIKE a family, not actually a real family. Michael is not a real son, and his fathers aren't real fathers. This book reveals more than a prejudice against gays, it reveals a prejudice against foster and adopted children, at root a prejudice against children. What kind of Christian could find it in her heart to add to the uncertainty of a child that has lost his or her biological parents? What kind of Christian would suggest that that child would be better off in a group home than in a home of his or her own, with two loving parents of his or her own - no matter what color or sexual orientation? Michael is an older child and tens of thousands of older children languish in the foster care system in this country, with as many as 25% of them ending up homeless when they age out of the system. But at least they weren't raised by gays, right?
Hetero Christian Dad's explanation is accompanied by an illustration of a black man and woman getting married. It's a contemporary image, as Christians a mere one hundred and forty-four years ago did not allow black men and women to marry each other. It was only forty years ago that black people in this country were allowed to marry white people (Loving v. Virginia, 1967). We shouldn't be surprised that white Christians are still telling black people whom they may and may not marry. Michael's black dad may not marry Michael's white dad, because white Christians say the Bible says so, just like they used to say black people couldn't marry each other. If black families were only LIKE white Christian families, with pretend marriages, then it was easier to sell off the mothers and fathers and children.
It's hard to tell if the author objects more to Michael's dads being a gay couple, or an interracial couple. The book's idealized depiction of Christian marriage is of a man and a woman of the same race. Michael hides in fear behind the chair of adamant finger-pointing (angry?) Black Dad, while later Black Dad cowers in the shadow of a white Jesus tied to a cross. On the road to normalcy, Black Dad comes to accept his place. He's purchased by the blood of the lamb.
There is one more illustration that may be of Michael - he has the same face, and very similar clothes, but he's older - a teenager. Hetero Christian Dad has explained that Michael's dads are sinning. The concept of sin is illustrated with the boy who looks like Michael stealing a magazine from a store. Apparently Michael is so confused about sin and gay marriage that he no longer knows the difference between right and wrong. Gay marriage leads to stealing, and worse - maybe even dancing.
"Your Mother and I want both of you always to do what the Bible teaches," hetero Christian Dad opines. "We hope our whole family can teach others what the Bible says so they can be in heaven, too."
The book ends, ironically with Christian Mom asking her children, "Won't it be wonderful when you two can read the words of the Bible for yourselves[?]"
Won't it be wonderful, indeed? Not every Bible is clouded by the cataract of a white Tennessee education, and these confused, questioning children might end up reading the wonderful stories about Jonathan and David, Ruth and Naomi, and the disciple that Jesus loved, with an open mind and heart and decide that their parents' religious convictions are little more than antebellum resentments.
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