working for SATAN SATAN SATAN!!!

so, i had to turn down a really well-paying job this week. allow me to share:

here’s the email that the AD sent me:

Hi Michael!

I design for a small Christian teen girls’ magazine through Focus on the Family. Our website is: http://www.briomag.com.

Would you be interested in doing a quarter-page illustration for our 16-19-year-old audience? I’ve attached a word document with the story. I’m prepared to give you $xxx.

I really like the idea of how your characters’ setting sort of seeps into them, if that makes any sense at all. Just let me know if you are or aren’t interested, and we can talk details. Thanks!!

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I checked out their website, and sent this reply:

Hi xxx,

much as I’d love to take the job, I must decline. I went to your website and, being a curious gay man, did a search for “homosexuality”.

I came back with this:

http://www.briomag.com/briomagazine/dearsusie/a0002988.html

Ugh.

I’d love to work with you sometime, but I couldn’t disagree more with the views expressed here.

All best, Michael

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Her response was very nice:

Thanks, anyway. This actually happens a lot, so no sweat.

I wish you all the best!

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Mind you, I really could have used the work. Apparently the parent company to Brio magazine is Focus on the Family, and they are EVIL INCARNATE, one of the most conservative of the religious nasties who seem to be so prevalent these days. And (allow me to be pathetic for a moment) this is the only work that is being offered me right now. The only people that want to hire me think that I should leave my husband and find/marry a wife and start a family. A “real” family. It’s God’s plan for me! At last, now I know!

I really, really need a goddam job.

xm