BYU gets 'Wicked'
Why dwell on problems like Utah's budget woes, worldwide recession or a grinding war? I prefer to look for the good news, such as the secure supply of show tunes to BYU.Thanks be to our Heavenly Father, the composer of the Broadway musical Wicked has decided not to cut off the flow of tasty tunes to BYU's Young Ambassadors. It would have been the equivalent of cutting Jacques Cousteau's air line.
For a week, show-biz Mormons have been hand wringing that composer Stephen Schwartz might punish Mormons for the church's championing California's Prop 8 that bans gay marriage by refusing to let the Young Ambassadors sing and dance his witchcraft-inspiring tunes.
KTVX Channel 4 reported that a former Mormon called on the music industry to refuse music to BYU's Young Ambassadors because it exists to promote the LDS church. In the end, Swartz chose not to deny his music to BYU because "They are a student singing group."
Swartz likely is aware of the Young Ambassadors' reputation as being more of a boot camp for coming-out gay Mormons than a proselytizing tool for the church.
9 Comments:
Glen,
You seem to have an endless font of tiresome drivel. No one cares about this except you morons in the media who delight in poking fun at the church. You bore me.
"reputation as being more of a boot camp for coming-out gay Mormons"
Does this reputation only exist in your head? It isn't a reputation if nobody else knows about it.
I'll second Glen's view on Young Ambassadors. He's dead on.
Nobody else knows about it? Everyone else knows about it.
Glen,
This is a useles story.
Nobody cares. Nobody loses anything.
Please, write about something of importance.
Hate to say it Mr. Anonymous, but YA's is and has been full of gay men for some time. I've personally known at least a dozen who to the BYU thing during the school year, but are openly "out" during the summer and after graduation. Some I think honestly struggle with the incompatibility between their faith and their attractions, while others openly criticize BYU and the Church, and act like they're trying to make the university look bad.
Personally, I think Randy Boothe ought to do a little house cleaning in this way. There's enough talent at BYU that he should be able to field an excellent group without casting those who make a mockery of BYU standards. Amongst the MDT crowd, the "Gay YA" has become a big joke.
And as long as we're going after Young Ambassadors as a trolling venue for gay Mormons, how about that absurd self-help group for gay Mormons, Evergreen? Gay men are supposed to go there for support in overcoming their "gay gene." Whatever. It's basically a big trolling place for gay men.
Leave Evergreen alone. I score there regularly.
It's the best nightlife in Utah.
Oh, and I'm not even mormon. Been an atheist my whole life.
There is a huge Gay Mormon underground here, and anyone who doesn't understand that has his head in the sand.
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