Mormons to Get 'South Park' Treatment

This development is too funny!! Not that I can say the attention - which I am sure will not be happily received - is not well deserved. I cannot say that I feel much sympathy - okay, I'll be honest, I feel NO sympathy - for a denomination that went to extraordinary lengths to impose its religious beliefs on all citizens in California. I wonder how rank and file Mormons will like the satire to which their fascist leadership has and is continuing to subject them. The Mormon Church consciously decided to discriminate against LGBT citizens and they deserve a decisive pay back. Maybe a few of its members will get the message that freedom of religion does not mean you can force your beliefs on others. Here are highlights from the Independent:

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They've tried noisy protests, consumer boycotts, and the odd act of minor terrorism. Now supporters of gay marriage have unveiled a new weapon in their war against the Mormon Church: satire. The creators of the cartoon South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, are planning to stage a Broadway musical based on the lives and (many) loves of typical members of the Church of the Latter Day Saints.

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Cheyenne Jackson, an openly-gay Broadway star who appeared in the film United 93, said this week that he has agreed to play the lead role, a Mormon missionary, in the show, which is currently being work-shopped and is slated to open in 2009. "It's hilarious: very acerbic and biting," he told the New York Post. "It offends everybody, but does what South Park does best, which is [that] by the end it comes around and has something great to say."

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News of the potentially-controversial project comes at a tough time for the Mormon Church, which is fighting a propaganda war over its role in passing Proposition 8, the ballot measure that outlawed same-sex weddings in California this month.

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The Sundance Film Festival, which begins in January, is particularly threatened by the boycott, since it takes place in the Utah ski resort of Park City, just a short drive from Salt Lake City. Actors and producers have been urged to pull their films from a Cinemark Theatres complex providing four screening rooms to the Festical. The company's CEO, Alan Stock, contributed $9,999 to the Yes on 8 campaign.