Nathalie Merchant // think if the children

[Michael] Stipe, who has been allegedly romantically linked to both Nathalie Merchant (the chick from 10,000 Maniacs) and Stephen Dorff, referred to himself as a "queer artist" in a 2001 interview with Time Magazine...
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It seems that gay people are everywhere in every day life but become fewer as we near the upper echelons of the art world, and out gay, mainstream rock stars can be counted on one hand, maybe two, which can only mean people are forced into the closet. And what kind of message does that send the children? Won't someone think if the CHILDREN???
-- Michael Stipe's sexuality not news on Sympatico / MSN Music, Tuesday March 25th 2008

The chick's name is actually Natalie Merchant. As for the latter bold-type, if children think then at least one person should think? Is that what you're saying? Or should if be of? That's more likely..