And here comes the heavy artillery: a new children’s book, Santa’s Husband, features a Santa Claus who is not only black, but is also gay, with a white husband — miscegenation! I’d like to imagine the religious right would just shrug and find joy in the fact that it’s about happy, loving people celebrating their religious holiday, but I don’t think it’ll happen — anyone remember Megyn Kelly’s insistence that Santa had to be white?
What next? Santa is a lesbian Asian woman? Would it make it OK if she was played by Cate Blanchett?
You know, I’m going all the way to Squid Santa.
Or maybe Cthulhu Claus.
Warning: They’re also polyamorous, two-spirit, progressive-anarchist socialists.
chigau (違う) says
Is that Groot as a pipe?
Iris Vander Pluym says
No. Laverne Cox should play Santa the lesbian Asian woman, OBVIOUSLY.
Curious Digressions says
Yeah! They look so happy and adorable on the cover.
Gregory Greenwood says
Cthulhu Claus – he knows if you’ve been bad or good… but he doesn’t care. He’ll eat you either way.
davidc1 says
Squid Santa can hand out presents 8 times faster at the local shopping center .
Lofty says
Sqiudmasmonster should be emitting rolling clouds of black “smoke” from its peculiarly placed pipe.
blf says
And in the UK, Threats to boycott Tesco after Muslim family features in Christmas ad: “Social media users react badly to TV campaign, with some suggesting the supermarket chain has Christmas”. For example,