Gay Jesus Pisses Off Texans

[romantico]

Posted: 6/20/10 at 9:32am

What else is new? So,what are the chances of this play opening in Branson? Nothing but a bunch of cry babies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mHojwrc-YE

Updated On: 6/20/10 at 09:32 AM

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 6/20/10 at 11:05am

Where was the outrage and local news feature story when I saw that awful production of Godspell, where Jesus skipped around the stage grabbing his disciples' asses?

[AC126748]

Posted: 6/20/10 at 11:06am

I love that one of their "man on the street" morals expert is a porn shop employee.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 6/20/10 at 12:21pm

What ever happened to the movie version of this play? It caused a commotion in Europe but I haven't heard anything about it being shown in the USA.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/20/10 at 12:36pm

There is no movie version. You probably believed some sort of email hoax.

I don't know why people continue to do this play. Not because of the so-called blasphemy, but because it's not a very good play.
Updated On: 6/20/10 at 12:36 PM

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 6/20/10 at 1:42pm

I remember several critics and audience members remarking that it was a good thing that the play was so controversial when it opened in NY, since the protests and controversy were far more interesting than what was actually going on in the theatre.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 6/20/10 at 1:42pm

This play was referenced on West Wing season 1, I think.

[romantico]

Posted: 6/20/10 at 1:51pm

Just saw this on a blog I go to. Pretty amazing.

Really Texas?

Texas GOP Platform

• Calling for repeal of the Real ID Act, which “creates an unconstitutional and privacy-inhibiting national ID card.

• Banning the use of red light cameras.

• Making American English the official language of Texas and the United States.

• Creating a felony offense for anyone who performs a marriage ceremony for a same-sex couple.

• Passing legislation requiring a sonogram for each pregnant woman seeking an abortion.

• Opposing legislation allowing stem cell research involving the creation of killing of human embryos for medical research.

• Calling for the immediate transition to a system of private pensions and gradually phasing out the Social Security tax.

• Calling for the repeal of the state lottery and opposing any further legalization of any type of gambling.

• Urging Congress to “repeal and reject the national healthcare takeover, also known as ‘ObamaCare.’?”

• Protecting the right to access raw milk directly from the farmer.

• Opposing automatic college admissions rules, such as the top 10 percent rule.

• Calling for the repeal of the No Child Left Behind law and the U.S. Department of Education.

• Removing the tenure system for Texas state colleges and universities.

• Opposing all bailouts of businesses.

• Recommending a national sales tax to replace all other federal taxes.

• Calling on the Legislature to repeal the revised franchised tax.

• Urging Congress to evict the United Nations from the United States to rescind U.S. membership.

• Urging the Legislature to require Voter ID.

I hear Texas is a beautiful state but what's with all these morons and rednecks?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/20/10 at 1:56pm

Passing legislation requiring a sonogram for each pregnant woman seeking an abortion

This one is sweeping the country.
Updated On: 6/20/10 at 01:56 PM

[degrassifan]

Posted: 6/20/10 at 3:20pm

I am not trying to open a can of worms, but here's what I think:

It wouldn't just piss off Texans, but a majority of Christians as a whole, whether they're pro-gay or not. I praise creativity and thinking outside the box, but I think writing a play where Jesus is represented as gay might be taking it a bit too far. That's like doing a bio-pic on Harvey Milk and portraying him as straight throughout the whole thing. It would piss off both gays and straights who praised Milk.

Again, I'm not trying to piss off anyone, but you gotta look at it from both sides. I hope I'm making some sense.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/20/10 at 3:31pm

Harvey Milk was a real person.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 6/20/10 at 3:54pm

Since we are all 'made in the image of God', does that mean we are all invisible?

[Calvin]

Posted: 6/20/10 at 4:02pm

Why is it peachy keen to depict Jesus as a silky-haired, fair-skinned, blue-eyed Renaissance era European, but gay is crossing the line?

And besides, degrassifan, because it pisses you off is not a reason to not produce a play. John Hagee pisses me off, but I'm not demanding he be taken off the airwaves.

That said, Phyllis is right. The play itself isn't very good. Updated On: 6/20/10 at 04:02 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/20/10 at 4:25pm

I saw the original at MTC and thought it was decent, but I guess it the production, because upon reading it and encountering it on stage again, it just isn't good.

[Hulmeman]

Posted: 6/20/10 at 5:37pm

Jesus surrounded himself with 12 MALE disciples. He had a choice, so the whole thing is up for debate in my humble theological opinion.

And to reinforce what has been said already, I don't think Jesus of Nazareth would have been the fair hired, Ayrian he is depicted in the works of art painted quite a while after his demise. So why do Christians cling to the dream?

And yes, Harvey Milk was gay, there is no doubt so, portraying him as a straight man isn't an opition and anything other is not worth the debating time.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 6/20/10 at 9:36pm

WWJS?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/21/10 at 12:32pm

Must have been a REALLY slow news day. It's a small town between Ft. Worth and Abilene and it's not even a professional production. It's a local college class project. Corpus Christi has been produced in Texas numerous times with no fuss at all. I played Judas in the Southwest premiere of Corpus Christi in Houston. The reviews were decent and there were no protests, threats or backlash of any kind.

Phyllis - The second half is where the show really falls apart. It starts pretty strong (with the exception of the clunky opening monologues), but the concept gets muddy and disjointed in the second act when the allegorical Texas tale pretty much goes by the wayside and it just becomes literal. By the time you get to the Last Supper, the point of setting the action in Texas in the 50s and having gay characters gets completely lost.

[Biff AKA Levi]

Posted: 6/22/10 at 4:22am

I really hated the top ten percent rule.