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Gay and Godless on the Public-School Stage

Liberals who demand church-state separation would pitch a fit if a public school decided to perform a play that reverently told stories of the Old Testament, whether it was the story of creation, the story of Noah, or Moses or Joseph and his brothers.

But somehow, if a public school decides to put on a play mocking God and the Old Testament, that is not a church-state violation. The separation police don't want religious (or atheist) minorities to face religious indoctrination in a public school. But anti-religious indoctrination mocking the Judeo-Christian majority is a glorious festival of free speech.

Take, for example, the taxpayer-funded Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter School in the People's Republic of Massachusetts. The school is in South Hadley, part of the same community of Northampton which was happily nicknamed "Lesbianville, USA" after the 2000 census showed more lesbians live there per capita than anywhere in the country. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has a house there.

Smack dab in the middle of the Lenten season, as many Christians prepare for Easter, the school scheduled performances of a play called "The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told." Make no mistake: This is a deliberate, and intentionally vicious, attack on Christianity.

"Fabulous" was written by the gay Jewish playwright and screenwriter Paul Rudnick. In this deconstruction of the Bible, God first creates two gay couples, Adam and Steve and Mabel and Jane.

These four are expelled from Eden and end up on Noah's ark, where Steve invents infidelity by having an affair with a rhinoceros. (Since that is somehow not enough, the women are sexually paired with a rabbit and a pig.) When the ark lands, this gay quartet discovers a strange race of humans who describe the horror of procreation. "We're gay," Adam announces. "We don't have children. We have taste."

The first act concludes with Adam and Steve being two of the wise men at the Nativity. The second scene opens in the current day, with a depiction of the birth of Jesus in a New York apartment with the "wise man" Steve now being HIV-positive and the lesbian Jane in the place of Mary, the Mother of God, who complains, "I'm not supposed to be pregnant, I'm a bulldyke!"

Mabel arranges to be married to Jane by a handicapped lesbian rabbi with a cable-access TV show.

We're also "treated" to Santa Claus as an "exquisitely curdled fairy."

It's one thing for this Bible shredding play to be performed in a community theater by adults. It's another thing entirely for these to be acted out in a public school by teenagers.

For his part, Rudnick is quite clear he doesn't believe in God. (Shocker.) In the script's introduction, he writes, "I believe in what human beings can do when you give them fifty bucks to guy some cheap red polyester velvet. Some people need more, something with vengeance and commandments and jihads."

He approached the play with the notion "Certainly my version of biblical matters could be every bit as absurd as the King James take. Creation tales tend towards the delirious; trying to explain the cosmos inevitably leads to comedy."

The Left rebels against God, and then declare they are the open-minded, peaceful ones. Pat James, a lesbian who bought a bunch of tickets for each performance, insisted, "The Haydenville Congregational Church is supportive all the way. We are an open and affirming congregation."

Does Rudnick's play sound like something you could support as "affirming"? This is the point. They're not only insulting they're dishonest. They know that to traditional Jews and Christians, this is a double-middle-finger salute. It only "affirms" by mockery. Why not just say so?

Because they're hypocrites. Leftists, more the radical ones, have an Orwellian habit of describing themselves as "inclusive" and "welcoming," but they shriek intolerance for people they think are intolerant. They don't have the decency to wonder if productions like these are the polar opposite of "open and affirming." They reject decency itself.

Then there was the school's principal, Tom Goldman, who asked, "Is it the role of public school to facilitate an exchange of ideas on the themes explored in this particular play? This is an excellent question, with answers that I imagine will be debated in what I hope will be climate of civility and a desire to understand others' viewpoints."

This man has the backbone of a noodle.

So to create an "exchange of ideas," the first thing you do is leave a flaming bag of dung on someone's doorstep? The Left has a bad habit of calling something a mere "dialogue" when they are dictating their terms of surrender to the culture. The note about hoping for a "climate of civility" is especially ridiculous, since there is no civility in the product on stage.

L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center. To find out more about Brent Bozell III, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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Sir;...When people do not grasp the myths they abuse, it is bound to be a hack job... It is sad that people cannot just judge their religions, and privately drop them as nonsense; but instead feel they have to abuse people who believe- with insults and offense...
There is always some child on the school bus who believes too long in Santa Claus, perhaps because Santa actually delivers who is the butt of abuse and shame.... Some people take delight in bursting other people's bubbles...It would be easier to get people to resist attacks on the church, on the credibility of the believers if the churches were not so abusive of others all the time, and almost from the cradle...
Do you feel superior to people because you have been saved??? Why is your good fortune the cause of your imagined superiority??? If you are intelligent, or able, or saved, you are blessed indeed, with an obligation, and not an excuse to feel superior...
The very success of the church, primarily the Catholic Church which has been the success of Western Society in a nutshell has been the advance of the individual as an idea, a legal fiction, and a social fact...The churches can no longer abuse individuals as Christians were once abused by the Romans- because they did not get in line with their communities... Simply said: We no longer believe that the whole community can be sent to hell as convicted by God on the sins of a few... People were once fed to the lions because they would not sacrifice a pinch of incense to the genius of the emperor... The bodies of convicted murderers where taken to the county line and literally, bodily tossed over it... People scapegoated the innocent if they could find no one guilty because they believed so much that whole communities would be cursed by the crimes they allowed, which were sins against the gods... This feeling has held on with people in many respects because of old time religion, but you cannot have it both ways...
In old time society people were all held jointly responsible, but rights were defended communally...Today, communities do not have power over their own, and their own are burdened with no responsibility, and everyones crime or sin is considered their own...
Instead of people looking to their churches for a defense of their rights, people tend to look at churches as empowered to deny rights, who may look out for their own, but do nothing meaningful for anyone... Believe it or not, people never ask for more of rights than they think they need, and while the churches may like the people in the position of going to the churches to be spoon fed their rights, this situation is no longer acceptable... It is hard work demanding your rights, accepting the burden of proving no harm will come of the exercise of freedom... For now it is easy for people with privlage to deny the rights of others because their privilages require no defense.... What if their privilages were put under attack as they should be???
I understand people willing to abuse the churches... They are only returning what they have recieved... I do not believe it is civil; but it is understandable... When the churches have delivered so many elections to the financially powerful by voting on knee jerk issues put on the ballot in expectation that they would vote on reflex, only to see their issues left intolorable to them as an open wound that can be used to prode them into action and again- is a crime... I will tell you... When the republicans had power they did nothing about abortion, but kept it there to enrage and energize their base... They will never tell their own the limits of democracy is in the injury against rights...
Why not tell them to get used to the law of the land, or find some sensible accomodation... They never tell their brothers in faith to be more charitable, to do the right thing, to invite the needy to join them in life, and an offer their support... They want political power, not to make child bearing less difficult and fraught with insecurity; but they want power to demand that people drop any baby they conceive or else... On the one hand, the church people prove they are stupid and can be used; and on the other hand they prove they are cruel and even ruthless to demand done what they refuse their help with...What they are not is moral in an sense of the word...
Church people are the worst sort of hypocrits, but that does not mean they should have their noses rubbed in their nonsense... They should be ignored... If a crazy person strips naked and runs around in the street hopping about like a fairy from point to point, you can pity them, or chase them down with a blanket while waiting for the rubber truck; but for most, it is civility to ignore them, and get on with life...
That is what everyone should do with the churches... We should resist them firmly, and not take the least part of crap from them... But we should also realize that they are trapped in perpetual childhood, and want everything both ways...They don't want to help anyone, but they want everyone to help themselves... They don't want the government to help anyone, or for the people to have enough power over government to use it to help themselves... If for them, hard work results in progress or success, they believe it works as well for all...
The religious are children; and while it is possible to agree with them that no government should use tax money for immoral activity, they support some immoralities and forbid others, and when that is not effective they want more, essentially, the power to turn the government against citizens... Mental children should not be allowed political power... People should just tell them where to sit, and to shut up... They have absolutely nothing to add to society, and should mind their manners... Seriously; no one will stop them from governing their own if they want to... The moral person is the last person to ever need law... But the churches need law far more than most...They simply presume they are moral without the slightest evidence...
Thanks....Sweeney

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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Sat Mar 30, 2013 2:11 PM