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[–]slushpilot 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

They apparently made the original video public again, so I guess they think it's just fine. There's a statement on the website.

I totally get the tongue-in-cheek nature of the song, but wow is it ever naïve to think everyone will read it that way. These people may live in their San Francisco bubble and think they can just not care about whoever doesn't get the joke, but what they don't account for is the number of people who will take them seriously.

[–]slushpilot 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So, it turns out a few of them have sex offenses. So then, when someone looks into it and finds that some of the members were convicted for lewd behaviour with a minor, what reaction did they think they would get? And How do they think that paints every other gay person by association?

Terrible subject to joke about. And they don't care how it looks, since they just put the video back up.

(I also saw a tweet with the guy in the thumbnail's conviction record, but the account that posted it was memory-holed.)

[–]MyLongestJourney 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So, it turns out a few of them have sex offenses.

Oh,this get better and better /s

Edit. It appears that the article speculates based on name and image similarities of some of the singers to certain registered sex offenders.The damage is done anyway.

[–]chazzstrong[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not sure it CAN be tongue in cheek now, now that the information has leaked that a good chunk of their choir are actual registered child sex offenders.