{"id":10018,"date":"2010-04-06T21:34:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T02:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=10018"},"modified":"2010-04-06T22:03:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T03:03:13","slug":"%e2%80%98corpus-christi%e2%80%99-controversy-continues-at-another-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2010\/04\/06\/%e2%80%98corpus-christi%e2%80%99-controversy-continues-at-another-college\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Corpus Christi\u2019 controversy continues at another college"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Corpus Christi\u2019 controversy continues at another college<\/strong><\/p>\n

April 5, 2010<\/p>\n

John Otte at Tarleton State University might have started a new college
\ntrend. For a class project he prepared an excerpt from the Terrence McNally
\nplay \u201cCorpus Christi,\u201d which presents Jesus as gay.<\/p>\n

Now Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. is presenting the play with some
\nadditional twists to rankle the radical right who protested the Texas
\nproduction into cancellation for safety reasons. (A presentation of Otte\u2019s
\nclass production in the Metroplex in a larger venue is still pending).<\/p>\n

The show was just recently added to the theater department\u2019s schedule.<\/p>\n

While Otte\u2019s production was simply a class project and presentation was not
\nopen to the public, the Gallaudet presentation is theater department
\npresentation. The D.C. production will be performed three times. At
\nTarleton, the play was slated for one performance.<\/p>\n

Gallaudet University is a school for the deaf. So in this production Jesus
\nwill be deaf and gay. And that added \u201cimperfection\u201d of hearing impairment in
\nthis presentation is sure to rile the homophobes who don\u2019t believe that
\nJesus embraced anyone other than married, suburban heterosexuals.<\/p>\n

The protesters in D.C. are at work again but the university is standing by
\nits production.<\/p>\n

So by threatening violence against a student in a directing class in a small
\nschool 70 miles southwest of Fort Worth, the right-wing haters in
\nStephenville have turned this relatively unknown and rarely performed play
\ninto a must-produce phenomenon for any theater company or college group that
\nwants to prove its independence and avant garde credentials.<\/p>\n

A story on Christian Newswire says, \u201d The lewd production was recently
\ncanceled at Tarleton State University in Texas due to peaceful protest.\u201d<\/p>\n

By peaceful, I assume they mean the threats of violence that were phoned or
\nemailed to everyone from the president of the school for not knowing every
\nstudent\u2019s homework assignment to Dallas Voice for reporting on the play.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m looking forward even more to bringing Otte and company to Dallas.<\/p>\n

\u2014 David Taffet<\/p>\n

Source:
\nhttp:\/\/www.dallasvoice.com\/instant-tea\/2010\/04\/05\/%E2%80%98corpus-christi%E2%80%99-controversy-continues-at-another-college<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Corpus Christi\u2019 controversy continues at another college April 5, 2010 John Otte at Tarleton State University might have started a new college trend. For a class project he prepared an excerpt from the Terrence McNally play \u201cCorpus Christi,\u201d which presents…<\/p>\n

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