A DEMENTED bunch of outraged Christian students at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, are demanding the banning of Terrence McNally’s controversial Corpus Christi, which portrays Christ and his twelve sidekicks as homosexuals.
Christianwire.com reports that the “lewd” and “blasphemous” production – recently cancelled at Tarleton State University in Texas after a “peaceful protest” – is to be staged at Gallaudet between April 8-10.
Among those dipsticks calling for the cancellation of the play is a Catholic group called The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP). Its student members launched an online petition last week inviting people to send protest emails to the university. Thousands have already done so at www.tfpstudentaction.org.
Said TFP Student Action director John Ritchie:
Blasphemy does not qualify as free speech …, Gallaudet University has no right to harm and slander the spotless reputation of the God-Man with blasphemy, then run to academic freedom for cover.
He blathered on:
Does Gallaudet University want to stamp out the sacred reputation of Our Lord Jesus Christ and replace it with scorn, mockery and blasphemy? When it comes to Our Lord, I find nothing but Christophobia here.
In fact, federal funds comprise 70 percent of Gallaudet’s revenue. And it just adds insult to injury when those federal tax dollars are being used to promote blasphemy. That’s simply unacceptable. Our peaceful message to Dr T Alan Hurwitz, President of Gallaudet University, is simple: cancel the play.
When the play staged in Cincinnati in 2003, Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk stated:
Corpus Christi seems to go out of its way to present Jesus and His story in the crudest and ugliest of ways. I believe that this play will offend the sensibilities of most people who reverence the Lord Jesus in any way.
They see things somewhat differently in California. Last year, the play was performed in a gay-friendly church, which prompted one fundie blogger over at The Last Days to rage:
Just what in the world is going on when the vast majority of Christians are no longer shocked to hear about a play that depicts Jesus as a homosexual?
Just what in the world is going on when that play is actually performed inside a packed church?
The truth is that a huge number of churches have completely abandoned the Bible and have instead surrounded themselves with ‘pastors’ and ‘priests’ who will tell them whatever they want to hear.
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
April 6th, 2010 at 11:42 am
The usual whine, “Blasphemy does not qualify as free speech” and then they define blasphemy. If we are to avoid what every nut job in every religion and cult defines as free speech then none of us will have much left to say. We are all atheists and as far as the believers are concerned that is so except for their own particular superstition. As Richard Dawkins said, “I just take it one step further.”
April 6th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
The first amendment does not create an exception for “blasphemy” – whatever that is. Neither has the supreme court ruled that “blasphemy” is not protected speech. These fascists have no law on their side only their own desire to eliminate anything and everything that they themselves do not approve. It is a great pity that they are sometimes heeded when they should not be – it only encourages them. If Tarleton college had told them to piss off, they wouldn’t now be attacking Gallaudet…eventually we start to censor ourselves (as we see the media doing every day), freedom is lost and the work of the fascists is done not by them but by us.
April 6th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
According to my dictionary, a phobia would entail irrational fear, horror or dread, so wouldn’t Christophobia be absolutely usual, indeed required behaviour, amongst Christians? It’s them, not the rational, who live in fear of some character from a work of cheap fiction.
April 6th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Tarleton, man am I glad I skipped that boat. Personally, as the president of a university facing the Christian protests, I would have to make the following statement.
“Ahem, excuse me. Christian students, it has come to my attention that you want to cancel a play depicting Jesus and the apostles as gay. Well, I have one or two words to say about that: FUCK OFF! That is all.”
April 6th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
Very inclusive bunch: Tradition, Family and Property, sounds like some insurance company’s slogan gone wrong. How can these pricks be pissed off by Jesus being portrayed as a homosexual, who – by the way – doesn’t seem to fool around with kids. If he did exist, look at his representatives on Earth: deviant behaviour seems to be okay within the organisations of christianity.
April 6th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
“Tradition, Family, Property”: sounds suspiciously like the Fascists to me!
http://www.tfp.org/tfp-home/ca.....alism.html
April 6th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
“The TFP resists the liberal, socialist and communist trends of the times and proudly affirms the positive values of tradition, family and property.”
http://www.tfp.org/tfp-home/wh.....ution.html
They are rabid Catholics, and guess what – Catholic priests are guilty of only a FRACTION of the child abuse that others are guilty of, so why all the fuss?
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ld.....40101.html
Absolutely beyond belief!!
April 6th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
We Acted but God Won
(They must be taking lessons from Stephen Green!)
“A word of gratitude: TFP Student Action is grateful to everyone who participated in this impressive anti-blasphemy effort. It is so encouraging to see what can be achieved with persistent prayer and peaceful action. Let us now thank Our Lord and His Blessed Mother for answering our prayers and blessing this campaign with success.
If you wish to thank Tarleton State University for canceling the play, write to president Dr. Dominic Dottavio: president@tarleton.edu president@tarleton.edu”
Of course, one could always let the president of this “liberal arts” establishment (I kid you not) know that one considers him a supine, spineless creep!!
April 6th, 2010 at 8:51 pm
Bansturbators all of them.
If you don’t like a play, don’t go to see it. If you don’t like a film don’t go to see it. If you don’t like a book, don’t buy it and don’t read it. Stop presuming to have a right to decide what other people go to see, buy and read. You have no such right, deal with it, or if you really can’t deal with it, pray to your all powerful god to sort it for you, I’m sure that will work.
April 7th, 2010 at 5:40 am
Stuart H said:
” wouldn’t Christophobia be absolutely usual, indeed required behaviour, amongst Christians?
Years ago I took my samarai sword and chopped my bible to pieces. I kinda regret that because it had a guide in the back that allowed you to use a recovered memory of a few words to find the passage. I wanted to find the quote of Solomon, that reads:
Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.
You are right, while christians pretend to love their god, and pretend their god loves them, they are all shaking in their ignorant boots that their loving father will send their eternal souls to hell. It’s all cool with the church, though, as long as while they’re pissing their drawers, they’re emptying their wallets into the tythe pan.
NeoWolfe
April 7th, 2010 at 7:41 am
NeoWolfe: just google it!
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Prov. 1:7). Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of God’s majesty, that has had a vision of God’s awful greatness, His ineffable holiness, His perfect righteousness, His irresistible power, His sovereign grace. Does someone say, “But it is only the unsaved, those outside of Christ, who need to fear God”? Then the sufficient answer is that the saved, those who are in Christ, are admonished to work out their own salvation with “fear and trembling.” Time was when it was the general custom to speak of a believer as a “God-fearing man.” That such an appellation has become nearly extinct only serves to show whither we have drifted. Nevertheless, it still stands written, “Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him” (Psalm 103:13).
When we speak of godly fear, of course we do not mean a servile fear, such as prevails among the heathen in connection with their gods. No, we mean that spirit which Jehovah is pledged to bless, that spirit to which the prophet referred when he said, “To this man will I (the Lord) look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word” (Isa. 66:2). It was this the apostle had in view when he wrote, “Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king” (I Pet: 2:17). And nothing will foster this godly fear like a recognition of the Sovereign Majesty of God.
That load of bollocks comes from the pen of Arthur W Pink, a renowned Calvinistic and Puritanical writer, whose works are still available from the Banner of Truth Trust!
April 7th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
Jesus may well have been gay-we really don’t know. I know He’d have sided with persecuted and discriminated minorities
April 7th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
GOD Has already Given America over to the last rung of demise’s ladder: homosexuality (Romans 1:18-32)– as proved by some 85 no-longer-existent societies (i.e., Rome). Check it out: before destruction, homosexuality was normalized.
“Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of oppressions, that shakes his hands from holding of bribes, that stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil; he shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.” (Isaiah 33:14-16). In other words, to be protected from invasion and to have a good economy: speak no evil, do no evil, hear no /see no evil (watch your entertainment). No longer let ‘Corpus Christi’ contribute to our demise by darkening our minds.
April 8th, 2010 at 9:44 am
Bjohn,
You always come thru. But Psalms is accredited to David, not Solomon. What I find important is what Solomon considered the “beginning of wisdom” and the later part where he was boning every woman available, including those who lured him into worship of false gods. LOL. The king gifted with supernatural wisdom by god. The one who built the original temple of cedar and gold, fucking foreign whores in the name of god. Whoa, it must be nice.
Except for those who are not “preapproved” as righteous.
NeoWolfe