It sounds like Chicago darlings Fall Out Boy have had a falling out of their own with one displeased parent. After watching the band perform in Charlotte, recently, one angry mother fired off an e-mail to the band’s label, Def Jam records. She 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. … This was a concert, not some liberal homosexual rally.”
A reply posted to the band’s Web site, says, “The only thing I said in Charlotte was, ‘… The only thing we consider unacceptable is for you to engage in sexist, racist or homophobic behavior.’ “
Wentz did offer up an apology but refused to backtrack, adding, “I don’t believe that treating other people as inhuman is acceptable. [Our show] is not a liberal homosexual rally, but at the same time, it will never be a Ku Klux Klan rally.”
