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Related: About this forumRight-Wing Catholics Will Protest a Dallas Production of a Gay-Themed Bible Satire
The conceit behind The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told is easy to grasp. Instead of Adam and Eve frolicking naked in the Garden of Eden, it's Adam and Steve who are the primordial couple. When they meet up with an equally primordial lesbian couple and decide to start a civilization, hilarity ensues.
The sacrilege was deliberate and gleeful, but what reviewers homed in on when the play debuted off Broadway in 1998 was the compassionate spirit that was layered underneath. As The New York Times' Ben Brantley put it at the time, "there's reverence in [playwright Paul] Rudnick's irreverence, an earnest warmth beneath the frivolity."
Religious conservatives, particularly in the south, however, prefer their "earnest warmth" to be Biblically accurate and free of homosexuality, which is why they have protested the play in the past and continue to do so as it makes its way through the nation's heartland.
In Oklahoma City, dozens of pastors have objected to the presentation of the play, calling it "obscene" and "an affront to Oklahoma City community standards." Here in Dallas, the Uptown Players' scheduled production at the Kalita Humphreys Theater will be picketed this weekend by America Needs Fatima, which describes itself as a "nonprofit campaign made up of Catholic citzens united in a common goal: To win the heart and soul of America for Mary, our Blessed Mother."
More at http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/12/america_needs_fatima_gay_fabulous_story.php .
Cross-posted at Texas Group.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)The obscenity is in allowing fellow people to starve and live in cardboard boxes while they imagine themselves better.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)KNR
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,252 posts)Whatcha saying about me posting this story?
Then you kick and recommend it!
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)I love religious nutjobs, when their blood pressure goes up, box office receipts go up!
pinto
(106,886 posts)Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)They might be threatened because even these high school kids can turn their precepts upside-down.
Looks like a good play.