Wasilla High School Principal Bans Bohemian Rhapsody Because Freddie Mercury Was Gay

http://ca.gawker.com/5801439/wasilla-high-school-principal-bans-bohemian-rhapsody-because-freddie-mercury-was-gay

Way up in Wasilla, where the men are men and the moose are meat, members of the high school symphonic jazz choir were excitedly rehearsing for the upcoming graduation ceremony, where they'd be performing an epic rendition of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody." Then they were told by Principal Dwight Probasco that the song had been pulled from the program. "Why?" they wondered, having put months of effort into the big number. Probasco explained it was because he'd received a complaint from a parent. You see Freddie Mercury, the vocalist who had sung the original version of the song, was gay.

Yes, it's a freaking real-world Glee episode, direct from the icy corridor that belched Sarah Palin to life. The choir kids, god bless 'em, didn't take the news lying down:

Choir member Casey Hight, a junior, was angry enough to contact a gay and lesbian support organization in Anchorage for help. They told her to contact an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union.

"I felt like the school was discriminating for sexual orientation and I felt it was wrong," Hight said Monday. "It's so stupid because there's nothing sexual in the song. There aren't even any cuss words.

Tell me he's not a spawn of John Denver and Chucky.

...a haircut as bad as that one?

... for precisely the same reason.

Probably the best pop song of the second half of the 20th century...

I am reminded of how amazing he was over and over again. Poor kids.

The principle is going to be very busy going through the entire academic and arts curriculum, not to mention the school library, if nothing remotely by a gay person is to allowed at that school.

ill-disguising the name of the town for cultural reference.

and tear out pictures of the Mona Lisa and Sistine Chapel because DaVinci and Michaelangelo were gay?

Oh, and that Tchaikovsky symphony the orchestra was planning? Cancelled now.

What a douchemonkey.

Composer : Leonard Bernstein - Gay

The playwrite Noel Coward - Gay

i`d be more concerned about dwight..he`s down right creepy looking.

The superintendent of school was this prune-faced old spinster with her hair pulled into the tightest bun you've ever seen. One year, the high school got new health and science books. She had them brought to her house first and she spent weeks with a razor blade slicing out the section on the human reproductive system from each book.

put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger now he's dead..."

It's like an un-used scene from 'Idiocracy'.

Because it describes that asshat principle perfectly.

That Freddie Mercury was also a Zoroastrian, an ethnic Persian, and was born it what's now Tanzania. I imagine the gay part would quickly become the least of the horrors.