By dcc
Sound-out the title; it makes sense. But what doesn't make sense is the latest edition of movie-star outrage over California enshrining oppression in the State Constitution. A group of Hollywood illuminati got together to make Prop 8: The Musical. It is laugh out loud funny, well made and absolutely irrelevant.
You can watch it or just take my word for it:
I loved the short and think it is pretty well done. Jack Black plays a very compassionate, if type-cast Jesus. (Who knew Jesus also was the same rock-n-roll lovein', fast-talkin', not showerin' dude as every other Jack Black character?) You will notice a number of well know faces and think to yourself, "wow, this is great...but why did they put this together after Prop 8 passed?"
Prop 8 was bank-rolled by lots of people on both sides of the story, but money wasn't the problem. People didn't hit the streets effectively; the LGBT community and its allies dropped the ball. It is pretty pathetic that in the most progressive state in the Country, that this kind of ballot initiative would pass. The thing that is the most disheartening is that with organizations like the Musical Team here, they couldn't figure out how to stop it.
There are more legal battles to come for Golden State and its somewhat inconsistent stance of civil rights. This and other after-the-fact statements to the ridiculous nature of this proposition are a waste of time and energy. Perhaps next time we will plan ahead.
That is a cute skit. California voters did not like the idea of teaching that gay marriage is OK to their children, which they were told may follow if gay marriage was legal and many simply believed it was immoral. There were just too many citizens who voted to preserve the traditional family structure to keep such a radical change from being made. No state has had voters favor allowing same sex marriage. While Jewish and Protestant clergy, leaders and laymen were split on this issue, the Catholic Church, Mormon Church, and evangelicals as well as black and Hispanic voters were more strongly opposed to offering full marital status to same sex couples. New biological studies tend to establish a genetic mutation in some people which leads to homosexual attraction, which makes their situation more sympathetic, despite traditional morality. The key may be that very young voters were more likely than middle aged and older voters in general to not oppose a loose definition of marriage and that may foreshadow the future.
Larry Kaufman said:
The irony of the Prop 8 fiasco is that the effort was bankrolled by folks who used to define marriage as between a man and as many women as he chose to support.
Prop 8 The Musical offers a yuck or two but its conclusion that greed will eventually cause the villains to change their stance doesn't hold water.
And now let me make myself really unpopular (or maybe not). I don't think on this RJ site that we ought to be "making fun with" -- note that I did not say "making fun of," which does not seem to be the case -- a Jesus caricature. There are times when what happens on You Tube should stay on You Tube.
David Levy said:
Los Angeles and San Francisco may seem like the most progressive places in the country, but there's a lot more state to California than its two biggest cities. The state didn't get a Republican governor by accident (even if it seemed that way during the carnival of an election in which he came to power.) (And even LA county didn't defeat Prop 8.)
dcc said:
MB I don't know what to do about you my friend!
LK: A fair statement on Jesus, however I do believe this is a perfect forum to discuss this particular skit and its lack of timeliness. Prop 8 enshrines religious doctrine into a constitution. And while the arguments made by these myopic actors and their living-in-a-liberal-bubble writer/producer are short sighted, they are funny and could have done some good BEFORE the election. So while Jesus is poked at in this particular skit, I also think, for a bunch of lefty-pinko-Hollywood types, they did a good job of only playing with the seriousness of the delivery but not (what lefties like to think is) Jesus’ message to humanity.
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That is a cute skit. California voters did not like the idea of teaching that gay marriage is OK to their children, which they were told may follow if gay marriage was legal and many simply believed it was immoral. There were just too many citizens who voted to preserve the traditional family structure to keep such a radical change from being made. No state has had voters favor allowing same sex marriage. While Jewish and Protestant clergy, leaders and laymen were split on this issue, the Catholic Church, Mormon Church, and evangelicals as well as black and Hispanic voters were more strongly opposed to offering full marital status to same sex couples. New biological studies tend to establish a genetic mutation in some people which leads to homosexual attraction, which makes their situation more sympathetic, despite traditional morality. The key may be that very young voters were more likely than middle aged and older voters in general to not oppose a loose definition of marriage and that may foreshadow the future.