Anti-LGBT activists in Dallas and Oklahoma City are trying to shut down performances Paul Rudnick’s “The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told,” a play that includes gay characters and takes a humorous look at Bible stories.
America Needs Fatima, a project of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property, is organizing a “public Rosary of Reparation against the blasphemous play” in Dallas this weekend.
Join our public Rosary of Reparation against the blasphemous play ‘The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told’ scheduled to show as “holiday fare” at the Kalita Humphreys Theater in Dallas, TX, on December 8…
…because “The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told” refers to Our Lady as a lesbian!
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This is blasphemy.
I ask — will God bless those who allow His Holy Mother to be dragged into the dirt of lesbian insults? Will He allow the Immaculate Conception to be turned into a homosexual party game?
A group of Oklahoma City pastors are going one step further and asking for a performance of the play in their area to be cancelled. The group, led by Paul Blair and Steve Kern , whose wife State Rep. Sally Kern claimed that homosexuality is “more dangerous” than terrorism, sent a letter [PDF] to state officials demanding that they stop the performance because “it is quite possible that this production meets the definition of obscenity and might be in violation of Federal and State obscenity laws.”
The pastors said that the government should “cease funding the Arts Council” until the play — which is produced by a nonprofit theater company — is pulled. The theater company producing the show says it already lost a $5,000 state arts council grant after Religious Right activists started complaining about the play.
A First Amendment law professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law told The Oklahoman that he
didn’t see enough data in the ministers’ letter to conclude that an obscenity prosecution was possible or plausible.”
