Posted on 03/31/2010 10:14:37 AM PDT by South40
NORTH TUSTIN – A controversial play that drew protesters in November will return to the Church of the Foothills for an Easter Sunday performance.
"Corpus Christi" depicts Jesus as a gay man living in 1950s Corpus Christi, Texas, playwright Terrence McNally's home town. The cast of 13 portray Jesus and the 12 Apostles.
"It's a story of love and a story of passion, and the story of Christ, so actually it works out very well to have it on Easter," said Pastor Mike Holland of Church of the Foothills. Holland said the group chose to do the play on Easter Sunday because that's the only time both the cast and the church were able to schedule the event.
"It's a modern retelling of the passion play and the life of Christ from a unique perspective, but I think it's very fitting that it would be on this weekend," he said.
Producer and actor James Brandon said he was surprised at the reaction in conservative Orange County.
"The love shown from the community was huge," Brandon said.
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“The love shown from the community was huge,” Brandon said.
I’ll just bet it was a lot of “love”....in the washrooms, the parking lot, backstage....
Nothing ‘controversial’ about it; none of the facts are in question: the play’s flat wrong, and blasphemous. What else is there to be said?
I think a better idea is to attend the thing and speak loudly over the performance in an exaggerated stereotype of an effeminate gay male.
When you make someone or something a JOKE or a MOCKERY, it's hard to take is seriously. Also many WANT to believe that Christ finds homosexuality acceptable. They really WANT genuine Christianity to conform to our ever lowering social mores - so, in the name of TOLERANCE, this will be a hit with the confused and perverted. The problem is, genuine Christianity is EXCLUSIVE in teachings and homosexuality is NOT one that is acceptable. Christianity is INCLUSIVE in the fact that you can abide by His teachings or reject them. He will NOT change His teachings to make YOU feel better about sin.
Can you imagine the outcry if someone portrayed Mohammad as a faggot?
What does one say who is involved in something like this when they kneel before the Almighty?
Organizers are saying the show is for mature audiences only.Oh really? Why is that? Are they performing gay sex scenes on stage? Involving Jesus?
Producer and actor James Brandon said he was surprised at the reaction in conservative Orange County.Yeah, totally surprised, I’m sure. They should have another play at Ramadan, where they have Mohammed having sex with 9-year-old girls on stage. That would also be very daring and indeed revolutionary! Transgressing the boundaries, you know?“The love shown from the community was huge,” Brandon said.
“What does one say who is involved in something like this when they kneel before the Almighty?”
If they don’t repent and give Him their heart ... I wouldn’t want to be them ... .
Play depicting Mohammed as pedophile returns on Ede`s.
Or as a child molester?
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“Can you imagine the outcry if someone portrayed Mohammad as a faggot?
Or as a child molester? “
At least in those cases, it would reflect the truth in that is what is known about him. To say Jesus was a homosexual is absolutely false.
Puhleeez, you were depending on it you lying sack of turds. If this was ignored he would go away, but instead he will end up being the toast of Hollywood and NYC.
If this is free speech, how do you suppose a movie that depicted Muhammad as a pig farmer would be received??
This is so wrong on so many levels.
In other words...
They claim a form of Godliness, but deny the power thereof. (2 Timothy 3:5)
...from such turn away.
jw
God clearly warns all those who simply “tolerate” or “approve of “ these things with their great “open-mindedness” will be held just as accountable as those who actually do them. This applies to churches and pastors/ministers/priests/rabbis as well. If you are in a church or have a church leader who “approves of” and supports this activity, you might be interested in studying the prophecies on “corruption of churches” . . .
The Bible is not ambiguous in its message concerning homosexuality. Homosexuality is not new. God never calls for capital punishment, or calls anything “profane” or an “abomination” if it is simply “genetic.” When we study the passages concerning Sodom and Gomorrah, it appears homosexuality, or sodomy, is symptomatic of a people who have willfully rejected and defiantly mock God’s laws in order to do “that which is right in their own eyes.” Sodom and Gomorrah were given as warnings . . .
This is a good read, anyone that needs to know what God thinks of Homosexuality here it is..So don’t let anyone tell you it is alright to be a homo..I think the person that wrote this so called play about Jesus has some really bad things to look forward to and anyone that goes to see it will suffer also.. things from God..Laugh if you like I do not care..THese people make me sick to my stomach..
http://www.alphanewsdaily.com/Warning%207%20Homosexuality.html
Ick...Although you’re probably right.
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