{"id":209439,"date":"2021-03-10T19:30:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T00:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=209439"},"modified":"2021-03-10T19:30:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T00:30:23","slug":"actor-jokes-he-and-husband-are-raising-son-gay-until-he-decides-hes-straight-sings-to-him-about-drag-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actor-jokes-he-and-husband-are-raising-son-gay-until-he-decides-hes-straight-sings-to-him-about-drag-queens\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Jokes He And Husband Are Raising Son \u2018Gay Until He Decides He\u2019s Straight,\u2019 Sings To Him About Drag Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Factor-jokes-he-and-husband-are-raising-son-gay-until-he-decides-hes-straight-sings-to-him-about-drag-queens%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=209439&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-205.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson told Ellen DeGeneres on Monday that he and his husband, actor Justin Mikita, are raising their 8-month-old son Beckett to be \u201cgay until he decides to be straight,\u201d and showed video of himself singing to the baby about drag queens.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining to DeGeneres the complexity of discovering the personality of a new child, Ferguson said, \u201cIt\u2019s a new person in your life, and just like anyone else new that comes into your life, it\u2019s like, you\u2019ve gotta figure out if you like them. It takes a little bit of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Fortunately], I really do like him. He\u2019s a really sweet boy. And it\u2019s been a lot of fun. I\u2019ve been wanting to become a dad for a long time,\u201d adding that he plays \u201ca lot of show tunes\u201d for Beckett.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re raising him gay until he decides he\u2019s straight,\u201d the \u201cModern Family\u201d actor said, prompting laughter from DeGeneres and the audience. \u201cOn the way back from the hospital, we played Britney Spears because that was what Justin demanded he listen to. That was his first exposure to music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of singing. I\u2019m writing a lot of songs for him. You know, everything has a song,\u201d Ferguson explained, offering the example of a show tune based on a dirty diaper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, you\u2019re raising him gay until he says he\u2019s straight,\u201d DeGeneres quipped. \u201cBut you\u2019ll love him just the same if he is straight, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely,\u201d Ferguson replied. \u201cHe\u2019s absolutely going to be, I can just tell, [he\u2019ll] be like such a straight kid. Who knows?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jesse Tyler Ferguson Is &#039;Raising His Son Gay Until He Decides He&#039;s Straight&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xBk2c-0_tjs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson went on to recount how among the children\u2019s books he is reading to Beckett, there is one titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hips-Drag-Queen-Go-Swish\/dp\/0762467657\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1NP28BBHISJWN&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=the+hips+on+the+drag+queen+go+swish&amp;qid=1615417154&amp;sprefix=the+hips+on+the+%2Caps%2C150&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish Swish Swish<\/a>.\u201d He then played video of himself singing a song to Beckett about it. Written by Lil Miss Hot Mess, one of the drag queens behind \u201cDrag Queen Story Hour\u201d with children,&nbsp;\u201cThe Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish\u201d is written for children between the ages of 4-8, according to Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Its description reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p><em>Playing off \u201cThe Wheels on the Bus,\u201d this nursery rhyme book from a founder of Drag Queen Story Hour is a fun, freewheeling celebration of being your most fabulous self.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish encourages readers to boldly be exactly who they are. Written by a founding member of the nationally recognized Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH), this playful picture book offers a quirky twist on a classic nursery rhyme by illustrating all of the ways to \u201cwork it\u201d. The story plays off \u201cThe Wheels on the Bus\u201d as it follows a drag queen who performs her routine in front of an awestruck audience. A fun frenzy of fierceness, this book will appeal to readers of all ages.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/disappointing-capitulation-evangelical-leaders-condemn-largest-protestant-adoption-agency-for-opening-adoptions-to-lgbt-couples\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Disappointing Capitulation\u2019: Evangelical Leaders Condemn Largest Protestant Adoption Agency For Opening Adoptions To LGBT Couples<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson told Ellen DeGeneres on Monday that he and his husband, actor Justin Mikita, are raising their 8-month-old son Beckett to be \u201cgay until he decides to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310465,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-205.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Actor Jokes He And Husband Are Raising Son \u2018Gay Until He Decides He\u2019s Straight,\u2019 Sings To Him About Drag Queens","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-205.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Actor Jokes He And Husband Are Raising Son \u2018Gay Until He Decides He\u2019s Straight,\u2019 Sings To Him About Drag Queens","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}