Outrage

When it comes to determining what qualifies as "art" nowadays, anything goes. From the Diocese of Charlotte:

CHARLOTTE — The faithful of the diocese, led by Bishop Peter J. Jugis, are standing up for the Catholic faith by protesting a blasphemous play being performed Feb. 2-18 at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center in Charlotte.

"The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told," an off-Broadway play written by Paul Rudnick in 1998 and being performed this month by the Queen City Theatre Company, retells the Creation story with two homosexual couples, portrays Mary as a lesbian and mocks the Virgin Birth.

The play "presents a gleefully outrageous reinterpretation of Creation. Adam and Steve begin their journey in the Garden of Eden. After being banished from Eden, they encounter Jane and Mabel, who insist they were the earth's original couple," according to the promotional information on the Queen City Theatre Company and Blumenthal Performing Arts Center websites. The two homosexual couples are then portrayed in various Old Testament stories, ending up in Central Park in modern-day New York, where Steve is suffering from AIDS and Jane is nine months pregnant. The irreverent play questions the existence of God, features homosexual acts and bestiality, and lampoons heterosexual fidelity. ...

More than 100 Catholics also stood in peaceful protest on the sidewalk in front of the Duke Energy Theater at Spirit Square in uptown Charlotte Thursday night, Feb. 2, praying a Rosary of Reparation and Divine Mercy Chaplet immediately before the opening night performance. The crowd grew quickly from 60 people to start with about 7 p.m., then to 85, and then to 105 by the time the prayer vigil was concluding around 8 p.m.