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| THE DEVIL IN YOUR FAMILY ROOM | PAGE 1, 2 , 3 Jaquez, who leads the training sessions, has even suggested that school officials and police look at Marilyn Manson fans as "gang members," suggesting that they're more prone than other groups of kids to drug abuse and property destruction. Jaquez says the state of Texas classifies gangs as a group with a leader, though not necessarily a structured leadership, that commits criminal acts. Other members of the community have said they do not see goth music fans as gang members, pointing out that group membership does not necessarily lead to illegal activity. But Jaquez says the goth rockers he's seen use drugs in a higher proportion than other kids and regularly deface property with graffiti. "They're being just as disruptive to the educational process as the Crips or the Bloods," says Jaquez, whose work with gang members has led him to believe that they are all troubled children who need structure at home. Through his seminars, Jaquez has reportedly called on schools to search the lockers of Marilyn Manson fans and monitor the books they check out from the library. He has also reportedly distributed a pamphlet titled "What a Parent Can Do," in which he suggests that parents of Manson fans consider hospitalizing their children. Jaquez takes Manson's lyrics literally -- such as the song "Antichrist Superstar" -- and he believes teenage fans look to Manson, in all sincerity, as a religious leader. The irony that many assume goes hand in hand with grotesque histrionics and "devil worship" doesn't figure into Jaquez's view of the goth subculture. Manson's autobiography, "The Long Hard Road Out of Hell," written with Neil Strauss, makes it plain he had a different agenda. Manson recounts the controversy that 2 Live Crew, a band from his home state of Florida, created with their album "Nasty As They Wanna Be," which was labeled obscene. "This inspired me to create my own science project and see if a white band that wasn't rap could get away with acts far more offensive and illicit than 2 Live Crew's dirty rhymes. As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn't seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity- and media-induced coma." Shock has always been Manson's artistic method. A rebel child from a conservative Christian background, Manson (born Brian Warner) distorts the dark imagery of damnation and apocalypse he encountered at the Christian school he attended as a child in South Florida. In various interviews, Manson describes himself as an outcast during his religious childhood, a kid who listened to heavy metal music and subsequently realized that he could make a money by selling bootleg copies of those albums to the Christian kids who were too scared to go to the store and buy them themselves. Christian fundamentalists across the country have followed his tours with religious protests and launched a Web site to spread the word about "The Truth About Marilyn Manson." While religious protests have been known to create difficulties in booking shows in small towns, those protests also fuel the fire of Manson's popularity. In a live concert last month in Syracuse, N.Y., Manson wore a garter belt and dry-humped the stage. "A couple of people outside told me that Jesus loves me," SonicNet Music News reported Manson as saying. "Jesus Christ was the first rock 'n' roll star. He had his shirt off, he was drinking wine and he f---ed a group of prostitutes. When [the protesters outside] say, 'Praise Jesus Christ,' they're saying praise Marilyn Manson. Praise Jesus and praise drugs." N E X T_ P A G E: Marilyn Manson: "Probably saved more kids' lives than any parent would like to admit" - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
