Pat Dollard | Young Americans

Like I’ve always said, if you want to know if homosexuality is a perversion against nature, just pull everyone’s pants down and take notice of what’s desigjed to fit where, and why. Gays are ten percenters like alcoholics. They need spiritual help from God as they understand him. It’s a pathology, an illness. Just like Leftism.

Culture And Media Instiute:

Alexandria, VA – A new, 3-minute video called Prop. 8 – the Musical features comic actor Jack Black as a Jesus who dances and sings, denigrates the Bible and promotes homosexuality.

Prop. 8 is the California constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman. Voters approved it on Nov. 4, and liberal groups are suing to overturn it.
Made by FunnyOrDie.com, a video production company started by comedian Will Ferrell, the “musical” also features lesbian comedian Margaret Cho, Sister Act actress Kathy Najimy and several other Hollywood personalities. The video opens with happy “gay” dancers singing about Obama’s victory, who are then confronted by angry, black-and-white suited Prop. 8 supporters – including a Mormon man with two wives and three “Catholic Schoolgirls from Hell” – seeking to spread “hate.” Jack Black appears as Jesus, rebuking the Prop. 8 supporters while munching on a shrimp cocktail and saying that the Bible condemns eating shellfish, too. Then he reels off some Scripture references without context to suggest that the Bible is self-contradictory and unreliable. Black calls the Prop. 8 supporters “sinners,” and disappears.

“If anyone still doubts that some people in Hollywood hate conservative Christians with a white hot passion, this video should relieve them of that delusion,” said L. Brent Bozell III, president of the Media Research Center. “The company that produced this little piece of gold-plated bile has some of Hollywood’s biggest investors backing it, including Time-Warner. Time-Warner should dump this turkey fast and move on.”

HBO, a Time-Warner division, has a stake in FunnyOrDie.com, a company founded in 2007 and worth an estimated $100 million, according to Variety.
Robert Knight, director of the MRC’s Culture and Media Institute, said:

“Prop. 8 – the Musical blasphemes Jesus Christ and accuses marriage backer

s of bigotry. But the video unwittingly puts the true bigots – the religion-hating entertainers – on vivid display. The video fits right in with the onslaught of angry “gay” protests targeting churches and individuals who supported Prop. 8.”

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Town Hall via Free Republc:

The point of the production is to shame the voting public for passing Proposition 8 a month ago, which simply defined marriage in California as between a man and a woman. The musical is clearly intended to spark more “public outrage.” No doubt, more protests, more storming of Mormon temples and Catholic churches and more vandalism against churches will follow. Beyond that, it is likely that more church services will be crashed by same-sex activists—all in the name of “tolerance,” “love,” and “mutual understanding.”

The strategy behind this shaming-of-the-public production is simple: lampoon the supporters of the constitutional amendment into embarrassment so that the next time same-sex marriage shows up on the ballot, they’ll do the “loving thing,” and support it rather than reject it, which is the only one true path to social penance, cultural redemption and liberal forgiveness—at least in the mind of the same-sex marriage crowd.

What’s new about all this is their overt play, albeit erroneously, of the Jesus card. Yes, even the “No on 8” crowd can “get religion.”

At the pivotal moment of the musical, Jesus (played by Jack Black) confronts the “Yes on 8” supporters for their belief that homosexuality is an “abomination,” and lifts a shrimp cocktail to them and says that Leviticus also says eating shellfish likewise is an “abomination.”

He then goes on to say the Bible also teaches that you can “stone your wife,” or “sell your daughter into slavery,” as evidence that you really can’t trust everything the Bible teaches. Or, as in the language of that oft-repeated favorite locution from our skeptical friends, “you can’t take the Bible literally.”

So much for the doctrine of inerrancy. I guess the Word made flesh really didn’t mean everything He said in the Word. Maybe we should put our trust in a non-believer to divine the “good” words from the “bad” words, huh?

Before leaving, Jesus even goes on to affirm, of all things, the “separation of church and state.”

Now these are delightful challenges! As a teacher, I wish more students had the courage to ask them.

Here are a few answers:

The whole point of Leviticus and Deuteronomy was to teach Israel how to separate and become distinct from all they had learned while in Egyptian captivity. They are books of contrast and separation, distinctions and differences. For example, Egypt worshipped death, Israel was called to worship life. The Ten Commandments of Exodus 20 are instructions of how to become different. Holy items shall be “sanctified”—literally, “set apart”—that is, distinct from non-holy items. Jews themselves, and later Christians, are likewise to be “set apart” for God.

Men and women were created different and distinct, therefore their roles, behavior and even dress should not be confused as the Egyptians did (and many pagan cultures still do).

For example, Deuteronomy 22:11 says, “You shall not wear a material mixed of wool and linen together.” The whole reason being “don’t confuse plant and animal products, they’re different categories, remember that.” There’s painful detail throughout the Bible pounding this meta-theme home.

God created different “kinds” of things, and we must honor His distinctions and not confuse them, for it is an “abomination,” exactly the very thing advocates for same-sex marriage are guilty of.

What about the shellfish? If you read the context of Leviticus 11:9-12, it too is talking about honoring distinctions. God is simply saying, in my paraphrase, “Eat fish, don’t eat bugs. Fish have fins and swim, bugs have legs and crawl. Even if you find things in the water that aren’t crawling, if they have legs, they can crawl—so they’re bugs, don’t eat them. Fish, good; sea-bugs, bad. Honor the distinction.”

The Bible’s statements prohibiting homosexual behavior are rooted in this need to recognize and honor the distinctions—here between men and women.

As far as the eating of shrimp, Jesus permits the eating of shellfish under what he says in Matthew 15:11: “It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.” And Paul emphasized in Romans 14:14 that it’s all about personal conscience anyway.

As far as the “stoning your wife” and “selling your daughter into slavery” claims go, they too have a simple answer. In 1400 B.C., before the law was given to Moses by the hand of God at Mt. Sinai, no nation had any moral code that prohibited a man from killing his wife, wives, or children for any reason. Pagans sacrificed their children to Baal and Moloch, Israel would not. Pagans could kill their families, Israel would not. So, the Old Testament improved the extant moral order by requiring men to go before the elders before any child was to be stoned (Deuteronomy 21:19). And, in all of the rabbinic writings to my knowledge there’s not one instance of the elders ever approving of a single stoning of a child.

Lastly, when you read the full context of Exodus 21:7-11, the “selling your daughter into slavery” slur, it too was an improvement over the ancient moral order. My paraphrase again, “If you sell your daughter off to a man and he becomes unhappy with her, he must give you a chance to redeem her and buy her back, he may not sell her off to foreigners. And if the man bought her for his son, she must not be treated as a slave, but as a daughter.” Like all the other teachings in the Old Testament, this was a big improvement over what was going on among the peoples around Israel.

Come to think of it, it still is—we still have “honor killings” of wayward daughters and wives today throughout the Muslim world.

Like Michelle Malkin, I too am waiting for the “other” Prop 8 musical to come out, as she says, “the one with angry activists storming restaurants and Mormon temples, hectoring elderly people over their signs, and hounding donors large and small until they pay off their tormentors in the name of tolerance. Anyone?”

I’ll bet the “Hairspray” boys won’t be doing that one any time soon.