Sadly, this sort of thing happens more often than is reported. It's as if the victory of the small-minded against the NEA in the late eighties and early nineties has given the crazies carte blanche.
Example: I worked at a VERY esteemed children's theater once. They were putting on a show where a young boy was put under a curse. One of his lines was, "Even black cats run away from me," at which point a puppet of a black cat would wander onto the set, see the boy, shout "EEK!" and scamper off the stage.
One person, I believe it was a teacher, wrote a threatening letter to the artistic director accusing her of teaching witchcraft to children.
That was all it took. The cat puppet was painted partially gray by the props department that afternoon to avoid controversy. I couldn't believe it. I have seen similar entities (i.e major regional theatres) brought to their knees with letter writing campaigns from the "outraged" over material that was even slightly outside the conservative point-of-view, hitting them right where it hurts--in their wallet, which they rely on now that arts funding in this country has gone so very much down the toilet. It's ridiculous.
We're living in a country that thinks LEGALLY BLONDE is too edgy. This is sad.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
