Prop 8: The Musical

[filkertom]

You might recognize a few faces:

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[kilbia.livejournal.com]

And if folks are looking for a way to obviously demonstrate support, might I suggest http://whiteknot.org/

BTW, as I mention in my own journal, I think the ending is cute, but I would be sad if that one tiny aspect of the gay marriage issue ended up being the deciding factor.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Point. It's not about money. It's about *love*. Of course, that may be part of the point, is the h8-ers could be so easily swayed by the almighty dollar...

Perhaps it is their true god?

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

A definite thumbs up. I am ashamed to admit that I missed identifying a few folks (Kathy Najimy, Jack Black). Full cast listing here for anyone else wondering whom they thought they saw.

[markbernstein.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you, that helps a lot. The blonde I was wondering about is Sarah Chalke, from "Scrubs". I completely missed Andy Richter. And I did think, "Is that Margaret Cho? Naah." She's lost a lot of weight since the last standup special of hers that I watched.

[pandoradeloeste.livejournal.com]

Fair warning, though: some of the comments are bad for your blood pressure. (There seems to be a preponderance of anti-h8 comments, but every once in a while there's a doozy.)

[markbernstein.livejournal.com]

Very nicely done. Of course I recognize John C. Reilly, Alison Janney, Jack Black, Neil Patrick Harris, and, in the chorus, Kathy Najimy. The younger blond woman at the left end of the conservative chorus looks really familiar, but I can't place her. It feels like she was on some sitcom that I never watched.

Oh, wait, is that Maya Rudolph in the purple T-shirt? I haven't followed SNL much in recent years, so it's hard to tell.

Who else?

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

The Asian woman is Margaret Cho.

[delazan.livejournal.com]

I damned near choked on my soda when I saw they had Jack Black portraying JC. Ranks right up there with the Late, Great George Carlin playing a cardinal.
-L.

[tomreedtoon.livejournal.com]

And what occurred to me was how much Jack Black looks like the World's Fastest Filker. Seriously. A few cosmetics and you, Tom, might be able to pull off a father/son act with Black. (And maybe get him to commission some songs for Tenacious D.)

[alfiechat.livejournal.com]

Interesting. By the way, i did the poem meme and one of your songs was the last line in it.

[ebenbrooks.livejournal.com]

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[alverant.livejournal.com]

Homosexuality is described the same way as a shrimp cock-tail. hmmmm

[fredhuggins.livejournal.com]

Great piece, but I wish they had spent more time listing all the wacky things the Old Testament says are okay/not okay. You could spend a whole SONG listing those; they should've at least strengthen their point with a whole verse.

I still think this whole problem could be solved if homosexuals declared themselves a religion. I know it's not, but SAY it is, then no one would bother them anymore! Either that, or all the gay wedding planners should go on strike and see how long this "sacred institution of marriage" lasts without them.

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

Much of the Old Testament laws given in Leviticus and Deuteronomy were about the Jewish people being visiblly different from their neighbors. The prohibition against shellfish, for example, was to denote a difference between fish and things that crawl (i.e. bugs) in the waters. Essentially it means fish are ok to eat but seabugs aren't.

Stoning was not done without the approval of the elders and the priests and if the things I've read elsewhere are correct there's nothing in the Rabbincal writings that ever says a child was stoned.

Slavery is always a touchy subjuct but you have to understand that it was a different concept than what we know of today amongst the Hebrews. For example if the daughter was unhappy in her situation the person who bought her was required by law to giver her father the opportunity to buy her back and said owner (and I don't like using the word, I'm only using it for context) was expressly forbidden from selling her to outsiders. There was also a provision in the law that if a man had purchased the daughter to be a wife to his son, which was a common practice at the time if memory serves, then she was to be treated as a daughter and not a slave. It's also important to remember that any slave was to be freed at the Feast of Tabernacles which was held every seven years.

I think a lot of misunderstanding about Leviticus and Deuteronomy comes from a lack of knowing the proper context of the laws intent.

[fredhuggins.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and they said shellfish and pork was evil because it was (and still is) damn near poisonous without modern refrigeration. It's amazing how many Biblical "rules" modern science has invalidated by, say, proving that people can't turn into salt.

But the Jews have always gone the extra mile to differentiate themselves from everyone else, and put themselves, the "chosen people," high atop the flimsiest possible pedestal. Orthodox Jews, IMHO, have willingly invited a lot of their own people's persecution by being so insufferably holier-than-thou despite their low numbers. Judaism is pretty much the only religion that treats itself like a Goddamn country club (I should know because I was born Jewish, and the first time I tasted delicious shrimp I wondered what else they could be lying to us about).

But ultimately, the Crazy Christians are equally at fault, if not more so, for arbitrarily picking and choosing which pieces of Jewish intolerance Jesus DIDN'T want revised.

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

I won't go so far as to say that the Bible is unprovable. "There are more things in heaven and earth than dreamt of in you philosophy, Horatio."

Lot's wife being turned into a pillar of salt was a supernatural event, so it's logical that science can't "prove" that it happened. It's a matter of faith.

Also in the New Testament Christ Himself did away with many of the food prohibitions saying that it wasn't what went into a man's mouth that made him unclean, it was what came out of it.

As for me personally? I try to live by the adive of St. Francis of Assisi "Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary use words." Basicly I just try to live life loving people and doing good. When someone asks why, I'm honest and tell them.

[batyatoon]

... eh. Is it bad that I think that was kind of lame?

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

No. I thought it had a set of five digital appendages made of lead.

[pickledcritter.livejournal.com]

I thought about sending you this link, Tom, but then I thought "OK, if I got the link from Wil Wheaton's blog, then Tom's probably gotten this about 30 million times by now" :)

[audreydorland.livejournal.com]

I think it was inspired to play Jesus as Jolson.