Re: RAT Christians and Comedy

[Pwpny@aol.com]

Yikes! I gotta ring in with Donna; maybe not everything she said (I, 
personally, have only met the more rabid right-wingers, including my own 
father, whom I love), but the jist of it. I come from a long line of 
lefty-liberals on my mother's side, and whether they still go to church or 
not, they learned their politics there. Granted, I'm talking Episcopalians, 
but still, when I see "fuck the christians," bait-and-switch or no, it deeply 
troubles me. Yes, absolute murder and mayhem has been committed in the name 
of the church, but love and generosity and, yes, protests, actions, etc. have 
been as well (see civil rights movement, for one). I'm terribly disturbed by 
any harm certain factions of Christians cause to gays or women or people of 
color or anyone, but, truly, that is not the Christianity I was raised in, or 
practice.

By the way, the play that we're doing right now deals with some of these very 
issues (see recent Shameless Plug post).

Catherine Porter
Peculiar Works Project
595 Broadway, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012
fon: (212) 529-3626, ext.1
fax: (212) 529-3626
email: pwpny@aol.com