Jack Black is Jesus in Hollywood’s 'Prop 8: The Musical' gay marriage ban satire

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Hollywood actors have lent their talents to a three-minute video musical satirising the controversial gay marriage ban recently passed in California.

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Prop 8: The Musical, created by award-winning Hairspray composer Marc Shaiman, features stars such as Jack Black and John C Reilly lampooning backers of the constitutional amendment, which limits marriage to a union between a man and a woman.

The ban was passed by voters during the November election, five months after gay weddings were legalised in the nation’s most populous state.

A number of legal challenges are seeking to overturn the amendment, which was opposed by Hollywood heavyweights including Brad Pitt and Steven Spielberg as well as President-Elect Barack Obama and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Its passage sparked protests nationwide.

Prop 8: The Musical, directed and staged by Hairspray director Adam Shankman, features well-known stage and screen actors taking part in a Sacramento community college threatre group production.

It opens with the colourfully-dressed “California Gays and The People That Love Them” dancing and celebrating a “brand new bright Obama day” and “happy days for the gays”.

Then a black-clad crowd led by John C Reilly and Allison Janney describes how they will “spread some hate and put it in the constitution” via Proposition 8.

They claim the Bible says gay love is a sin. But Jesus Christ, played by Jack Black, intervenes to point out the Bible “says a lot of things”, including that shellfish is an abomination and it is acceptable to stone your wife or sell your daughter into slavery.

He urges them to “choose love instead of hate”.

The musical finishes with Neil Patrick Harris telling the Proposition 8 crowd about the “money to be made” from gay marriage before the entire cast unites in opposition to the ban, declaring that “gay marriages will save the economy”.

Mr Shaiman says in a note introducing the video that he is releasing the musical “six weeks later than he shoulda”.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3546924/Jack-Black-is-Jesus-in-Hollywoods-Prop-8-The-Musical-gay-marriage-ban-satire.html

Comments

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

That was cute!

[hazardous-filth.livejournal.com]

Forget Jack Black, it's got Barney Stinson Neil Harris in it!

[torasama.livejournal.com]

+1

[jlc20thmaine.livejournal.com]

So it's okay to use the bible only when you want to enforce the false notion of separation of church and state?

Just another fail from hollywood.

[johnroche.livejournal.com]

false notion of separation of church and state

So I guess that means that churches will pay taxes from now on?
Or that the Catholic Church will turn in the priests who molested children and the bishops who shuffled them to other churches?
Or that there are laws against making graven images or not honoring your father or mother?
Or that churches will be required to oversee gay marriages?

PROTIP: Proposition 8 is unconstitutional under the US Constitution's 14th Amendment. Supremacy clause, motherfucker.

[jlc20thmaine.livejournal.com]

So I guess that means the churches can do and say what they want without any restrictions, correct?

If the churches cannot interfere with the sate, then the state cannot interfere with churches. It must work both ways.

And Prop 8 does not violate the 14th Amendment.

[ltmurdoch.livejournal.com]

OK, I'll bite. How does the state interfere with churches?

[jlc20thmaine.livejournal.com]

For one it limits what it can say.

[ltmurdoch.livejournal.com]

I noticed you didn't go into detail. And I know the reason: your argument is baseless.

What you are talking about is the fact the if a Church starts talking about politics (especially if it promotes one political candidate over another) it loses its tax-exempt privilege.

This SPECIAL PRIVILEGE has been granted for some reason unknown to me. But it is only granted as long as the Church is a Church and is not simply an organization with some other more tangible agenda that is just pretending to be a Church. To me, a Church is an organization that provides a forum to worship and teach about beliefs in unearthly, intangible entities related to human spirituality. I totally understand that it's somewhat of an artificial line that is drawn between professing to know how God wants you to live your life and support your version of "morality" in society but not being able to suggest which candidate would serve that purpose best in the eyes of the Church. But a line has to be drawn somewhere, otherwise everyone would claim to be a church.

That said, just because the government puts a limit on this tax-free privilege does not mean it limits what a Church can say. Any Church is more than welcome to endorse any political candidate it wants. It just has to accept the tax implications.

[desidono.livejournal.com]

Your problem is you haven't been touched by His Noodly Appendage.

With your protesting words, you're infringing on my right to make you believe like how I want you to believe. This is clearly a violation of the first amendment.

[adrunkencadence.livejournal.com]

Um. You know shooting down Prop 8 means that Civil Marriages were banned. Not religious marriages- which does not apply to the issue and never has.

No religious congregation was mandated to accept or practice wedding homosexuals.

[real-live-troll.livejournal.com]

this

[jafesq.livejournal.com]

The state doesn't interfere with churches. It, in fact, allows churches to make unGODly sums of money, use many government resources and not pay ONE DIME to support it. They only require that they don't support a particular candidate. The Morman church and its members spent millions of dollars to pass Prop 8 (using outright lies like they will be forced to teach gay marriage to 1st graders) and they still don't have to pay taxes.
I am sure your opinion would be the same if I founded the Church of the Holy Fairies and proposed that I be allowed to film gay porno as a religious rite and to sell it to my congregants for a large "donation" which I then used to defend my priests who molest children BUT not have to pay taxes on the income.(Hmm...not such a bad idea)

[paintmeamovie.livejournal.com]

Seriously. You could make some cash off that.

It's already been done...

[ltmurdoch.livejournal.com]

You misspelled "Church of the Holy Fairies." I think it's spelled S-C-I-E-N-T-O-L-O-G-Y.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

They're not saying the Bible is right, just that it's stupid.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

This.

[paintmeamovie.livejournal.com]

Where does the bible say sep of church and state? You are confused, it says that BECAUSE OF sep of church and state, that religious matters shouldn't be legal issues.

oh garsh, but you atributed it to hollywood didn'tcha? That means its automatically wrong or something. Because people with means can't have opinions. (Only facts, it seems)

[coolstring.livejournal.com]

Hollywood is 500 miles away from Sacramento. Try again.

[dreaming-faerie.livejournal.com]

Omg! Sarah Chalke, Craig Robinsin, Andy Richter, Kathy Najimy, and Maya Rudolph! This was extra awesome for them in it too!

[drivebyluna.livejournal.com]

I love it!

[mcnuggets.livejournal.com]

I admit, I lol'd.

[navygrlf14.livejournal.com]

I know some people just don't want gay marriage because it uses the word marriage.

If it were to say Union they'd be okay with it.

[hazardous-filth.livejournal.com]

My opinions is get rid of all marriage, be it gay straight, pet or otherwise and and just have civil unions for all.

[ltmurdoch.livejournal.com]

Could I marry more than one person, then?

[hazardous-filth.livejournal.com]

You couldn't marry more than zero people. Heh. Taking "marry" as it's used as an umbrella term for legal partnership, yeah possibly.

I'm not sure about the idea of multiple unions, I think there may need to be added legal stuff done to handle it first. I'm not sure off the whole range of benefits/side-effects of a legally recognised partnership/union/marriage. But I see no reason polyamorous people shouldn't be able to become a ... group. In America I could see health care/insurance being an issue with jobs or whatever that provide health plans for employees and their partner. The issue of unions being between more than two people (which would make divorce weird) or people having multiple unions is also something that would need to be worked out.

Pretty much substituting one person for another is easy, replacing one with two or more requires some analysis, possible law changes and definite form changes.

[hazardous-filth.livejournal.com]

Could be an interesting moot/topic for a debate. Don't think I've seen it done before, so might pass along to some friends who do it at uni. Gay marriage debates are so over done and boring as it just involves one side taking a christian hardline of gays being evil and not real people and the otherside arguing a very hippyish love for all line.

[navygrlf14.livejournal.com]

I was told, these are not my beliefs for the record, that Marriage was created as religious event, and is a religious ceremony, between a man and a women, which is why alot of religious people don't like it being between a man & a man or a woman & a woman.

I know plenty of people who are fine with homosexuality, but they want the word Marriage to stay between a man and woman. They are perfectly fine with the same thing being called a Union.

[torasama.livejournal.com]

From what I understand it was origninally a property agreement. God came into it later.

[jafesq.livejournal.com]

This is VERY funny and clever.