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The video opens with a shot of a reader board from Sacramento Community
College. It reads: Sacramento Community College Players Presents “Prop
8 – The Musical.” The shot cuts to the interior of an auditorium. The
stage is set up to look like a beach. A group of beachgoers come out
from offstage, dressed to appear gay. The “gay” ensemble includes
Jordan Ballard, Margaret Cho, Barrett Foa, J.B. Ghuman Jr., John Hill,
Andy Richter, Maya Rudolph, Rashad Naylor, and Nicole Parker. The shot
cuts to Marc Shaiman playing the piano.
Gay ensemble (singing): It’s a brand new bright Obama day. What a time
to be black, a girl, or gay. No, nothing could go wrong. So, join us in
this song of happy days, for the gays, nothing can go wrong!
John C. Reilly and Allison Janney pop up from behind a beach umbrella.
John C. Reilly: Look nobody’s watching. It’s time to spread some hate and put it in the Constitution.
Allison Janney: Now? How?
John C. Reilly: Proposition 8
John C. Reilly unfurls a giant, rolled piece of paper with Prop 8 written at the top in bold letters.
John C. Reilly, Allison Janney and gay ensemble: Proposition 8!
Gay ensemble (frightened): Proposition 8!
The shot cuts to a “conservative” ensemble that includes Kathy Najimy,
Jenifer Lewis, Craig Robinson, Rashida Jones, Lake Bell, Sarah Chalke,
and Katharine Leonard.
Conservative Ensemble: Right!
John C. Reilly and Conservative ensemble: People listen to our plea. They’ll teach kids about sodomy! Sodomy!
A group of frightened, “average” citizens is shown rushing toward a
voting booth and John C. Reilly and the conservative ensemble are shown
congratulating themselves.
Gay ensemble: That wasn’t right. That’s a lie!
Conservative ensemble: But it worked, so we don’t care.
Gay ensemble: Now you wish we’d all shut up.
Conservative ensemble: But make our clothes and fix our hair.
Gay Ensemble: And our love’s not a sin.
Conservative ensemble: Well the Bible says it’s so.
Jack Black appears on the stage in the bright, heavenly glow and he is dressed as Jesus.
Jack Black (speaking): Well, the Bible says a lot of things, you know?
Conservative and gay ensembles: Jesus Christ!
Jack Black (speaking): Hey, how’s it going?
John C. Reilly (speaking): Jesus, doesn’t the Bible say these people are an abomination?
Jenifer Lewis: Obamanation!
Jack Black (speaking): Yeah, but you know it says the exact same thing about this shrimp cocktail.
Jack black holds up a shrimp cocktail. The conservative ensemble moves toward the shrimp cocktail.
Conservative ensemble: Mmmm, shrimp cocktail.
Jack Black (speaking): Ba ba ba ba baaaa. Leviticus says that shellfish is an abomination.
Jenifer Lewis: Obamanation!
Maya Rudolph (speaking): What else does the Bible say Jesus?
Jack Black laughs a little.
Jack Black: (speaking) The Bible says a lot of interesting things.
(singing) Like you can, stone your wife or sell your daughter into
slavery!
John C. Reilly (singing): Well, we ignore those verses.
Jack Black: Well then friend it seems to me, you pick and choose.
Conservative ensemble: We pick and choose.
Jack Black: Well choose love instead of hate. Besides your nation, was
built on separation, of church and state. (speaking) See ya later,
sinners.
Gay and Conservative ensembles (speaking): Bye Jesus. Goodbye Jesus. Bye.
Kathy Najimy: I love you, Jesus.
The shot cuts back to Marc Shaiman at the piano and Neil Patrick Harris is sitting next to him on the piano bench.
Neil Patrick Harris (speaking): You know, here’s another thought to wrap things up.
Everyone turns to look at Neil Patrick Harris who begins singing and dancing across the stage.
Neil Patrick Harris (singing): Oh, every time a gay or lesbian finds love at the parade…there’s money to be made.
Conservative ensemble: He’s right!
Neil Patrick Harris: each time two grooms say, paint the wedding hall and lavender’s the shade. There’s money to be made.
Conservative ensemble: He has a point.
Neil Patrick Harris: Think of all the carriages and four white horses. There’s millions lost from all of your disapproving.
Conservative ensemble: Well that’s not good.
Neil Patrick Harris: Think of all the lawyers for the gay divorces. Think of the tattoo removing.
Neil Patrick Harris pulls up the shirt of one of the male, gay ensemble
members and a tattoo on their stomach vanishes in a sparkling flash.
Conservative ensemble: We get it now. We’ve been such fools.
Neil Patrick Harris and entire cast: I can see. America’s calling me. Gay marriages will save the economy!
The entire cast takes a bow and the shot cuts to a black screen with
the following displayed in white text: To Find out More about Prop 8
and what you can do to support equal rights for gay and lesbian couples
go to http://jointheimpact.com
Patience is a virtue...
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gayandmarried
Atheism is a religion. Infact, All religions have 3 things in common.
A faith belief about deity.
A faith belief in untested theories about how human life and the world came to be.
A faith belief in what happens when you die.
Atheism fits this criteria. It is a religion. You do not need a god to be a religion.
Religion: 1 a: the state of a relig... more >
dope
"You state christians use "fear tatics". But that does not change the truthfulness of the supposed fear tatic claim."
Fact: Hell and heaven can not be proven to be real.
Besides, for someone such as yourself to put homosexuals down by calling them faggots, why do you claim to CARE so much about our souls going to hell? Seems like you aren't here to convert us... more >
Here I'll correct an obviously biased statement to make it more REALISTIC: "And yes, men and women do perverted sex acts like shoving random objects into their anus."
If you could only open your eyes and look at the entire picture instead of obsessing about potential homosexual behaviour, you'll see that heterosexuals are, in sexual ways, very capable of doin... more >
Okay let's look at the term RELIGION: A religion is a set of stories, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to an ultimate power or reality.
Yeah, I don't think my being an atheist fits into that explaination at all. :) Humanist, ON IT'S OWN, is more ref... more >
gobo said: "The sort of imaginary America where the ACLU is an evil communist organization and gay people have gerbil sex while "good Christians" are full of holy love."
Yeah maybe one or two (that's what...0.000005% of all gay people?) have experimented with gerbils. That's automatically equal to 100% of gay people wanting to 'play' with gerbils?
That's comed... more >
gobo
You still did not justify your lie about the bibles verses being taken out of context as to prop 8.
Christians NEED a god to believe in...and that's okay. You all have fun with your god. That's the whole point; I (and many others, whether they be gay or straight or black or white) .. don't NEED a god to have purpose in their lives.
The difference is, whether or not I am in a gay marriage, it doesn't have any negative bearing on anyone's life whatsoever. Non... more >
gobo
I have simply gone into your zone. It is not me who has said they live in some alternate reality named the other America. You are the one sounding like John{ I have a hidden baby} Edwards with the two americas garbage.
I don't live in any bible belt. And I am not far right. I am not a memeber of the KKK or any other far right group. So, wrong assumption.... more >
gobo
Where does logic come from if everything is an accident? Logic has to fit a pattern to be correct. But if we are a purposeless accident, then there is no need of logic, or any way to know logic is true. How do we know our minds are evolved properly? What do we base the logic on? What do we base science on, and personal reason? If things fit an ordered p... more >
CN said, "You must have a creator to have order and purpose, to have logic and reason."
Uh... no. You don't. You can have science, logic, and personal reason. You don't necessarily need a deity to worship to live a happy life.
Keep in mind that Buddhism, one of the worlds' most popular religions, has no god, no deity, and no creator.
Love it! Separation of church and state, and human rights. It's as simple as that :)
CN, wow, you've gone into a weird paranoid zone, fantasizing about what gay stereotypes are in your world.
Actually, when I mentioned "your America", I was referring to the far-right-wing bible-belt mindset that folks like yourself subscribe to. The sort of imaginary America where the ACLU is an evil communist organization and gay people have gerbil sex while... more >
gayandmarried
How do you receieve freedom from religion? Who has held a gun to your head and forced you into a religion?
You state christians use "fear tatics". But that does not change the truthfulness of the supposed fear tatic claim. Its like saying that telling you to look both ways befoe crossing a street is a fear tatic. What it is, is telling you the... more >
gobo
You live in a different America? Is this an alternative dimension? Where everyone sodomizes gerbils, and wears a sickle and hammer on their pajamas? Maybe everyone lisps as they listen to the village people, wearing buttless leather chaps, and a ball gag?
So we have stablished your a sodomite, a communist sympathiser, and now you suffer from schitzo de... more >
kcedwards said, "Anyone who receives the word of God would not find this video humorous, but vile."
Why? Because it points out that the Prop 8 supporters lied to voters and used scripture passages out of context to get people to vote to take people's legal marriages away?
kcedwards also said: "Anyone who receives the word of God would not find this video humorous, but vile."
Anyone who receives freedom from religion finds christians fear tactics (ie. "believe what WE believe or you're going to hell") humerous and vile at the same time.
Difference is, atheists like myself don't live a life of moral guilt (yet we follow the same ... more >
kcedwards also said: "Anyone who receives the word of God would not find this video humorous, but vile."
Anyone who receives freedom from religion finds christians fear tactics (ie. "believe what WE believe or you're going to hell") humerous and vile at the same time.
Difference is, atheists like myself don't live a life of moral guilt (yet we follow the same ... more >
kcedwards said: "Those who seek their own desires without knowing the Word of God and don't put God first are worshipping other gods, whether it be money, sex, evil, etc."
Why should YOUR god be put first? What about other other gods, and the other scriptures that profess their god is the only right and true god?
Why is your god better than all the other gods ... more >
This video really saddens me; it is a testament to how screwed up our country is. We have fallen so far away from God that other gods are our #1 priority, whether it be sex or money. True Christians do not hate anyone, but hope that others will hear the word of God and find the true way through Jesus. Anyone who receives the word of God would not find thi... more >
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