Actors Jack Black, Will Ferrell and Other Hollywood Stars Release New Video "Prop 8: The Musical"

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Great, that’s the way to get people to understand gay marriage issues. Have a musical mocking their positions. Well, they can sing like a canary, my position will remain the same. Marriage is between a man and a woman. That idiot who claims to be the first man to get pregnant was a woman who started the process of a sex change. He/she still has a uterus. That doesn’t count. Hell would have to freeze over for me to vote in favor of that amendment, should it come up for a vote in my state. I know that will rile some people, but that is just my belief.

Since Prop 8 passed in California, much of Hollywood seems to have been riled by the choice of the voters. This new video,”Prop 8: The Musical,” was posted on FunnyOrDie.com. This site was co-founded by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. The site has found a niche in getting professional talent to quickly create topical comedy videos.

“Prop 8: The Musical” is a 3-minute Internet video, with a blockbuster cast—including Jack Black (who plays Jesus), Neil Patrick Harris, John C. Reilly, Andy Richter, Maya Rudolph, Margaret Cho, Rashida Jones and others.

In the video, Jesus doesn’t bring the two sides together, but Harris has better luck. He argues gay marriage could save the economy: “Every time a gay or lesbian finds love at the parade, there’s money to be made.”

The video was conceived and written by Marc Shaiman, the Tony Award-winning composer of “Hairspray” and “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.” McKay, who had previously collaborated with Shaiman on the song-and-dance routine Ferrell, Black and Reilly did at the Oscars earlier this year, sent him an e-mail floating the idea of a video. Source: Breitbart

The fallout has come after voters approved Prop 8, which changed the state’s constitution to ban same-sex marriage. This is an obvious attempt to protest the vote. How about people sympathetic to the preservation of the institution of marriage being between a man and a woman, producing their own three-minute video reiterating their position? I suspect it would not get the same reception from the gays and lesbians. I have no issue with their choice, but as a Christian, I cannot vote in favor of an issue that goes against my religious convictions.

Filed under: Adam McKay, Jack Black, Marc Shaiman, Margaret Cho, Maya Rudolph, Proposition 8, Video Mocking Voters Decision, Will Ferrell

Roseanne Barr Lashes Out at African-Americans Overwhelming Support for Prop 8

The blame game has begun for the fact that Proposition 8 went up in smoke for the gays and lesbians in California. So much so that Roseanne Barr, the self-appointed moral compass for the cause, is now lashing out at African Americans for overwhelmingly supporting Prop 8. She accused blacks of being “bigots” and “ignorant” for supporting the amendment, which amends the state constitution define marriage as between a man and a woman. So, who if Roseanne Barr? The last time I checked we are no longer in slavery and Jim Crow, so we don’t have to be told how to vote and who to vote for.

Why is the blame being leveled against blacks in California? Are there other ethnic groups who voted in favor of the amendment? Since when do we owe the gays and lesbians a favor? Personally, I define marriage between a man and a woman. The Bible clearly states that “‘Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.” (Leviticus 18:22). I don’t profess to know what God’s intentions are or if there is even a God, though I believe in my heart there is one, but I do know that I have the freedom to make the choices I feel are right for me. I have no problem with gays and lesbians being given all the rights they deserve, but not the right to marriage. Sorry, that is my biblical belief.

On her blog, “Roseanne World,” Barr said that the “70% of black church going Californians who voted this cycle voted for prop 8 (sic)” had “misused” their votes, and were inspired by their “immoral” and “hateful” pastors and clergy.

“They voted to destroy the constitution that Obama will hopefully uphold against their wishes, by making sure that church and state remain separated,” Barr wrote.

“They showed themselves every inch as bigoted and ignorant as their white christian right wing counterpartners who voted for mccain-palin and bush-cheney,” she added.

According to CNS News, Randy Thomasson, president of Campaign for Families and Children, said Barr has long been associated with the homosexual activist community – and homosexual activist groups have staged riot-like protests in recent days against Mormon churches and other supporters of Proposition 8 in Los Angeles and Palm Springs.

Even homosexual Web sites are reporting that racial epithets – including the “N” word — have been used by homosexual activists against African-Americans, he noted.

“How is it that those who demand tolerance from others are so intolerant of the people’s vote to reserve marriage for a man and a woman?” asked Thomasson.

Even liberal activists are appalled at the display of what they acknowledge is racism. So because blacks did not vote for the proposition we are being labeled as bigots. Responding as though gays and lesbians in California are owed a favor by African Americans is reprehensible. This is not the way to advance equality. It is destructive and deeply offensive. I think Roseanne Barr has forgotten that most Americans oppose gay marriage, so why blame just blacks and Mormons?

Filed under: Homosexuality, Marriage, Proposition 8, Roseanne Barr

Barack Obama Now Opposes Proposed Ban on Gay Marriage

This is deja vu! I specifically recall Barack Obama stating that marriage was between a man and a woman, but he has suddenly had an epiphany and now thinks otherwise. This will be a real problem for him with the evangelicals. It seems as though he is talking out of two sides of his mouth. Apparently gay rights moved to the forefront of the presidential campaign after Democratic Sen. Barack Obama’s announcement that he opposes a November ballot measure in California that would ban same-sex marriage in California.

In a letter to San Francisco’s Alice B. Toklas Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Democratic Club, the presumptive presidential nominee said he opposed “the divisive and discriminatory efforts to amend the California Constitution” and similar efforts in other states. Obama’s position on Proposition 8 was announced at a club event Sunday after a move by Arizona Sen. John McCain, the expected GOP standard-bearer in November, who last week told officials of Protect Marriage, a coalition that gathered 1.1 million signatures for the California measure, that he backs their efforts “to recognize marriage as a unique institution between a man and a woman.” At least John McCain has not vacillated on his position where this is concerned.

For both campaigns, the decision to get involved in the same-sex marriage debate carries political risks. This will be a big problem for Barack Obama who was talking about faith-based initiatives and trying to woo evangelicals.

California is one of three states with same-sex marriage bans on the November ballot. While the state is seen as Obama country, and Arizona is McCain’s home state, Florida, the third state seeking to limit marriage to a man and a woman, is a swing state that will be a major prize in the November election.

Herein lies the problem–Barack Obama has said repeatedly that he believes marriage should be only between man and a woman. When the California Supreme Court overturned the state’s ban on same-sex marriage in May, Obama released a carefully nuanced statement saying he respected the court’s decision, believed states should make their own decisions on marriage and “will continue to fight for civil unions as president.”

But civil unions, gay activists argue, aren’t the same as marriage, and they say his earlier stance would put Obama on the wrong side of what’s increasingly seen as a civil rights issue.

The Obama campaign didn’t go out of its way to announce the senator’s position on a controversial California ballot measure that will have repercussions across the nation. Instead of a splashy public endorsement ceremony, complete with beaming supporters of same-sex marriage, Obama announced his support midway in his letter, which was read at the club’s annual breakfast. Doesn’t that seem out of the norm for his campaign?

Prop. 8 supporters have accused Obama of trying to have it both ways by coming out publicly against same-sex marriage, but opposing any efforts to ban those unions. “His position makes very little sense,” said Brian Brown, executive director of the National Organization for Marriage, California. “If he’s opposed (to same-sex marriage), he should just say so. Instead, he’s trying to appease the wealthy elite who support gay marriage.”

Early polls show that while the Prop. 8 race is likely to be a close contest in California, many of the young and liberal voters who back Obama are strongly opposed to the same-sex marriage ban. But those groups of voters don’t have nearly as much clout elsewhere in the nation. A CBS poll taken early in June showed that only about 30 percent of American voters favored legalizing marriage for same-sex couples.

The country’s economic woes and the war in Iraq take more precedent than that of same-sex marriage. I do believe, though, that marriage should be between a man and a woman, but I have no real issues with what these people do. They are free to make their own choices and live their own lives. But the bottom line is that two men or two women cannot procreate, so it is quite obvious that that’s not the natural order of things. If I had to vote on such a ban in Georgia, I would vote in favor of it based on my beliefs.

Obama’s position on same-sex marriage can be used against him in a few states, like Ohio and Pennsylvania. But I don’t believe it will be a major issue.Barack Obama is talking out of boths sides of his mouth and he should be called on it, plain and simple. Just my thoughts, you be the judge…..

Filed under: Barack Obama, John McCain, Proposition 8, Same-Sex Marriage