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's his staff directory page) 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.

Let it not be said, however, that Principal Probasco is an unreasonable man. After much consideration, he decided to put the song back into the program! However, it will be an edited version of the song that omits "lyrics in one section about killing a man." Probasco: The King Solomon of Wasillan educational administrators, and also a dead ringer for Elton John.

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

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WTF?

I wonder if that was a factor? :evilgrin:

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on seeing this article. Obviously not as smart however.

I'm thinking Freddie Mercury and Elton John posters lined his room. While his nights were consumed with strange erotic dreams he never fully grasped the meaning of.

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You read my mind!

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Editing the lyric doesn't make Freddie Mercury "less gay", and Freddie Mercury being gay has nothing to do with the edited lyric.

This guy's a tool.

The audience cheered before the song was even played...

:D

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from The Nutcracker Ballet?

so they can hear it from Sarah Palin's porch.

:spray::applause:

Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead

Mama, just kissed a man
Put my lips against his head
Blah blah something, his name's Fred

Something like that.

TlalocW

I'm pretty sure he has Ted Haggard syndrome, and the song made him afraid he'd be just like Freddie Mercury!

one of the greatest musicians of all time.

...I watched his tribute show and cried. I think, looking back, it was the first time I'd ever seen a gay man portrayed in a positive light. I felt like the world had lost a good person, yet for some reason I was supposed to be happy. Another of the conflicting teachings that would make me one day cast off that hateful regime of thought.

hating someone for how they choose to have consensual sexual encounters (rapists and pedophiles sure, but if it's consensual and everyone is an adult?)

With all the stuff out there that affects me personally I really can't see spending much time worrying what people are doing behind closed doors.

...I had been raised by my grandparents, secluded from normal society (something that haunts me to this day), and deeply involved in the church -- as such, a lot of 'thou shalt hate the homosexual' was preached, and that stuff worms its way into your head when you have ~no reason~ to suspect that it might not be true.

I can see how it doesn't make ~any~ sense -- I'm an adult now, and been on my own for years. I've come to terms with all the things that were incessantly pounded into my head, and I actively work against virtually every one of them. But every now and then, it still tries to worm its way back out, like a rot that just won't ever completely go away.

That said, I'm a strong believer in the right for people to do what they wish behind closed doors, be it who they love, what drugs they may choose to take, and what deity -- if any -- they choose to worship. I don't think any person has the right to condemn another for any of those, or a myriad of other, choices. But such an obvious statement can be incredibly hard to actually realize when all you've ever known is hate, and furthermore, been taught that your hate...is ~love~.

Sir Isaac Newton better watch out!.......

Plus this cool wizard on the set of 'The Hobbit'

The clown will have to ban computers.

he finally admitted to her that he was gay - and she told him, "I knew that years ago, I was just waiting for you to realize it."

But according to some people, that would make him bisexual, not gay.

They care not that you like to have sex with women, too. As long as you like having sex with men, you're a flaming gay pervert unworthy of humanity.

Freddie was indeed bisexual. He was quite the busy boy having sex with long lists of both women and men, and he made no bones about it. He did at least a couple of interviews where the subject came up and was quite candid about it.

Sheesh! Bohemian Rhapsody?

football games, though. Funny stuff people do...

Because Freddy was gay.

along with all the sports programming on TV. Because Freddy was GAY!

I think not....

Perhaps not.

include the word "Beelzebub"

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Wow, teh stupid is strong in Wasilla

You don't always know what exactly... but there's something just not right about them?


My skin's crawling...

He was simply responding to a parent's complaint (allegedly, but let's give him the benefit of the doubt). The grown-up response to the complaint would be "Thank you for your concern, Mrs. Palin,* let me think about it." Then do a little research, and find any number of similar gay stove-piping objections that could be raised. Then Dimwit could call Mrs. Palin back, and run down the list of "Are these acceptable or not to you." After a while, even Mrs. Palin would figure out how stupid her objection is and back down.

She would then have figured it out on her own, possibly been appreciative that the dimwit principal took the time to take her stupid complaint seriously, and actually become a more reasonable person. And, as long as I'm theorizing on unlikely occurrences, I might as well stand up to make passage easier for the monkeys about to fly out of my ass. But, at bottom, the principal took the stupidest course of action he could find, upsetting his students, lending credence to Mrs. Palin's bigotry, and making himself look like a dimwit.

*A pseudonym, no reference to any person living or dead is intended and any resemblance to any person living or dead is purely coincidental.

it should be known that Jesus was gay. He had to be. He was never married. At least according the Pope. Jesus was in his 30s. It was considered sacrilegious not to be married in biblical times. He kissed Lazarus on the mouth to raise him from the dead. They left that part out of the Bible. Who was it that kissed him the night he was betrayed?

I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative."
John Stuart Mill

Public school students across the state were immediately segregated by gender and restricted from hearing, performing, duplicating, discussing, reading about, or even contemplating the art, music, literature, or scientific discoveries from members of their respective opposite sex. Additionally, artistic and scientific content contributed by known homosexuals was immediately banned, and all references to said banned subjects were stricken from the public record. Furthermore, the words "homosexual," "gay," "lesbian," "transgendered," and "Barney Frank" were removed from all dictionaries in the state, and labeled as "very naughty."

In a related story, all technology in Alaska mysteriously stopped this week, all communication from the state have abruptly ended, and no one has seen Alaska for at least 24 hours. Canadian officials deny any knowledge of Alaska's disappearance, but expressed relief. "It's like the whole place just got sucked into a big black whole of stupidity, eh? 'Bout damned time!"

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That poor school will end up horribly limited musically.

Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber.

Throughout the centuries, no doubt there were very many who never let it be known.

See, that's another really ridiculous thing. Most people personally know a gay person, but have no clue!

Let's ban all the music, literature and art created by individuals whose personal life or beliefs we don't agree with.

I'll start: Richard Wagner, a deep dish anti-semite and adored by Hitler

Benjamin Britten and his favorite tenor, Peter Pears, for whom he wrote the opera PETER GRIMES.

Oscar Wilde wrote the libretto for the Richard Strauss opera SALOME, so I guess we could count him, too, in the classical world.

Listened to the Sea Interludes again. Was there ever a more descriptive piece of music? Ban that alone would be the same as slashing a Monet.

He even refused to have orthodontic work because it might change the quality of his voice. Talk about a role model in this day and age when people seem to want to look perfect. His art was more important to him than a silly consideration like that. And kids need to know they're beautiful just the way they are!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnjF1O4eH0


I mean the song, of course. :evilgrin:


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn9E-HpTi4E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNYFrT4yRdU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdUKi3_QntE

Wanna bet Dwight thinks The Captain and Tennille is the pinnacle of rockdom.

Fuck that shit

Or Rock Hudson movies? Or Oscar Wilde plays? Or Truman Capote books?

What a homophobic douchebag.