Anti-Catholic Hate Speech at Tarleton State University

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Jesus is depicted as the “King of the Queers” who says to the apostles, “F— your mother, F— your father, F— God.”
NEW YORK, NY (Catholic League) - On Saturday, March 27, Tarleton State University in Texas will host a performance of “Corpus Christi,” the Terrence McNally play that was the subject of a major street demonstration launched by the Catholic League in 1998 when it opened in New York City.
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Catholic League president Bill Donohue explains his position:
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"There are three things wrong about this event: (a) the play is hate speech directed at Christians and is far more than just a “gay Jesus” play (b) it is being shown at a state university, and (c) it is being performed on the eve of Palm Sunday.
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"I saw the play, led the demonstration against it, and debated its supporters when it came out in 1998. Jesus is depicted as the “King of the Queers” who says to the apostles, “F— your mother, F— your father, F— God.”
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Read more here: catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=35945
 
I can’t stand people who do things like this.

It’s 1 thing to support gay-marriage…But this is despicable.

Puts people on the gays side in a bad light.

Ridiculous.
 
Bishop93 said:
I can’t stand people who do things like this.

It’s 1 thing to support gay-marriage…But this is despicable.

Puts people on the gays side in a bad light.

Ridiculous.
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I am with you all the way on this one. This is just disgusting!
 
I don’t know anything about play except what has been in the news, but agree that it sounds offensive.

However, it should be noted that the performance of the play is a part of a class, and would never have been seen by the general public. It is just one among several plays being presented that day for students. “Corpus Christi” was chosen by a graduate student as his project for an advanced directing class.
dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/032610dnmettarleton.1e6c41a0b.html

Moreover, due to threats of a massive protest, the performance of this play has been restricted even further: only invited guests and relatives of the performers may attend.
chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6929429.html
 
Meh. I remember going to school everyday at UCR and every other week we’d have people coming over with signs like “GOD HATES FS" and "Q*RS WILL BURN IN HELL”. There are extremists on all sides. Now if you live in the USA, you put up with it, because everyone gets a voice, no matter how stupid they are. It’s tough for me to be sympathetic to any cause that acts so inappropriately.
 
lynx said:
Meh. I remember going to school everyday at UCR and every other week we’d have people coming over with signs like “GOD HATES FS" and "Q*RS WILL BURN IN HELL”. There are extremists on all sides. Now if you live in the USA, you put up with it, because everyone gets a voice, no matter how stupid they are. It’s tough for me to be sympathetic to any cause that acts so inappropriately.
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Sounds like the Phelps Westboro Baptist group to me. Their agenda is definitely not Christian. I heard one opinion that they wanted to try to bait people into committing physical violence against them, and then out come the lawyers.

It is a sham to call an extremist group like the Westboro Baptists “Christian”. So their loathful behavior can’t be justified as balancing the state-sponsored, vehemently anti-Christian play at TSU.

-Tim
 
timotheos said:
Sounds like the Phelps Westboro Baptist group to me. Their agenda is definitely not Christian. I heard one opinion that they wanted to try to bait people into committing physical violence against them, and then out come the lawyers.

It is a sham to call an extremist group like the Westboro Baptists “Christian”. So their loathful behavior can’t be justified as balancing the state-sponsored, vehemently anti-Christian play at TSU.

-Tim
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I’m not justifying anything; quite the contrary actually. I think extremes on both sides ruin life for everyone. However, you can’t silence a play you feel is anti-christian because you don’t like the message. The biggest blow to such a production is to just have no one show up. Ignore their stupidity and go about your life.
 
timotheos said:
Sounds like the Phelps Westboro Baptist group to me. Their agenda is definitely not Christian. I heard one opinion that they wanted to try to bait people into committing physical violence against them, and then out come the lawyers.

It is a sham to call an extremist group like the Westboro Baptists “Christian”. So their loathful behavior can’t be justified as balancing the state-sponsored, vehemently anti-Christian play at TSU.

-Tim
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WBC is a disgrace to the word Christian.

They scare people away from God and the truth…Which I’d say is a bigger problem than homosexuality all together.

How are you gonna help somebody with the Gospel if all you’re gonna do is yell “God hates soldiers” and “Thank God for dead soldiers and 9/11”.

Anti-Christian and Un-American is what those folks are.
 
lynx said:
The biggest blow to such a production is to just have no one show up. Ignore their stupidity and go about your life.
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I initially agreed with you there lynx; however, let’s travel back to the 1920s when Fascism was gaining traction in Italy and Germany and elsewhere. I wonder how many educated, thoughtful people decided to condemn it by simply ignoring the hateful messages being propagated by others. I believe there does come a point where a very real line is crossed and the implications, if allowed to be carried through, become dangerous. I will admit this is a vast grey zone, and it’s difficult to be definitive about where that point is or where that line is, nonetheless, it’s definitely there, as history attests.
 
Timothy17 said:
I initially agreed with you there lynx; however, let’s travel back to the 1920s when Fascism was gaining traction in Italy and Germany and elsewhere. I wonder how many educated, thoughtful people decided to condemn it by simply ignoring the hateful messages being propagated by others. I believe there does come a point where a very real line is crossed and the implications, if allowed to be carried through, become dangerous. I will admit this is a vast grey zone, and it’s difficult to be definitive about where that point is or where that line is, nonetheless, it’s definitely there, as history attests.
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When the WBC gets people to listen and accept the vile falsehoods they project, then a more proactive solution is needed. Right now, they’re the puss on a boil of a dead rat that most people step over. Man, am I getting hungry.
 
lynx said:
However, you can’t silence a play you feel is anti-christian because you don’t like the message.
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But it’s not just about “feeling” that a play is anti-Christian or personally disliking the message. In Sweden, this play would be positively illegal - but allowed anyway, since the gov seldom cares when it is Christians that are being insulted.
Just wanted to point that out.
 
Dale_M said:
While I don’t like the theme and plot of the play, I don’t like the threat of violence being allowed to suppress free speech, either.
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I agree…threats of violence from individuals or the government.

That being said, I’d sure like to see the reaction if someone produced a play that showed the prophet Mohammed portrayed as a homosexual or as a child-molesting day-care center operator or something equally outrageous. How would CNN or Al-Jazeera report that?

I have a saying that “Controversy is the last refuge of the incompetent”–when an “artist” or “writer” wants to generate some press, all he/she has to do is take a cheap shot at Christianity, especially Catholicism. It’s so old hat, but still seems to work.
 
srlucado said:
I agree…threats of violence from individuals or the government.

That being said, I’d sure like to see the reaction if someone produced a play that showed the prophet Mohammed portrayed as a homosexual or as a child-molesting day-care center operator or something equally outrageous. How would CNN or Al-Jazeera report that?

I have a saying that “Controversy is the last refuge of the incompetent”–when an “artist” or “writer” wants to generate some press, all he/she has to do is take a cheap shot at Christianity, especially Catholicism. It’s so old hat, but still seems to work.
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Did you ever see that movie Religulous? It seems to answer the question of why not to attack the Islamic religion. Their extremists will tell you that they’ll attack you then do it. I don’t see a lot of Christian extremists coming public and making threats, just making threats.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie 😦

That being said, I have the opportunity to work with many people of different faiths and find most muslims to be great people.

Also, this threat of violence has only gone to legitimize the play of having an actual message. Congratulations to whoever the genius was that brought validity to their stupidity 😦
 
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