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Gay 'Romeo and Julian' school play called 'political correctness' gone mad
ANI ^ | Feb 27, 2009

Posted on 02/27/2009 12:24:14 PM PST by presidio9

A British school that staged a gay version of Romeo and Juliet - called Romeo and Julian - has been accused of 'mind-blowing' political correctness.

The play, which was performed by teenagers at a mixed school in east London to coincide with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) History Month, has caused a stir in parliament.

Drama teacher Jo Letson reworked Shakespeare's play to challenge 'homophobia and homophobic bullying'.

The version was praised by actor Sir Ian McKellen when he saw it last month, reports The Telegraph.

Calling for a debate on political correctness during questions on upcoming Commons business, Tory MP Philip Davies said: "This is mind-blowing.

"Anyone with an ounce of sense would want their children to be learning Romeo and Juliet rather than Romeo and Julian."

The MP for Shipley in Yorkshire added: "Romeo and Juliet is one of the greatest works ever written. It is a play that every child should study.

"It is very worrying that this literary masterpiece is being used for such a politically-correct purpose."

However, Commons leader Harriet Harman rebuked him, saying: "I seem to remember that in Shakespearean times, boys would play girls and girls would play boys and the whole point was trying work out which was which.

"There is going to be a debate next Thursday about new equality legislation so we can ensure everybody in this country is treated with fairness, respect and not subject to prejudice and discrimination - and indeed cheap shots - from you."

The play was performed by students aged 14 to 16 at Leytonstone School last month.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: agitprop; culturewar; downourthroats; homosexualagenda; indoctrination; inourfaces; littleredschoolhouse; revisionisthistory; sexpositiveagenda; stalinisttactics; teensex; usefulidiots
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To: presidio9

I don’t think it would work, but I’ve always wondered about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern...


41 posted on 02/27/2009 1:24:21 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Cap'n Crunch

Good one!


42 posted on 02/27/2009 1:26:06 PM PST by techcor (I hope Obama succeeds... in becoming a one term president.)
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To: presidio9; stylecouncilor

“England is a fag country.” —Archie Bunker


43 posted on 02/27/2009 1:49:13 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Billthedrill
You are unintentionally aiding the homosexualagenda when you make jokes like this. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were childhood friends sent to get Hamlet killed, he outwits them, and they are killed instead. There is nothing indicated even a hint that something was gay. As a matter of fact, Shakespeare's plays are remarkable for the fact that there are no gay characters or references. I know that shirtlifting was supposedly frowned upon at that time. But Shakespeare was the master of the innuendo. And since 10% of our society is gay, and Shakespeare was probably a liberal (for his day) one would think that the gay references would be all over the place. But they aren't.
44 posted on 02/27/2009 1:54:21 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam Is As Islam Does)
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To: presidio9

Actually I’m quite intentionally laughing at them. The same has been said in the “new” criticism about Mercutio and Romeo as well.


45 posted on 02/27/2009 2:07:05 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: presidio9

Between crap like this and coddling the Muhammadians I fear for the UK more and more each day.


46 posted on 02/27/2009 2:35:43 PM PST by DemonDeac
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To: presidio9
"I seem to remember that in Shakespearean times, boys would play girls and girls would play boys and the whole point was trying work out which was which.

Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
Its a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for Lola...

47 posted on 02/27/2009 2:38:51 PM PST by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: Perdogg

This song from “Making Movies” seems more appropriate:

Les boys do cabaret
Les boys are glad to be gay
They’re not afraid now
Disco bar in Germany
Les boys are glad to be
Upon parade now

Les boys got leather straps
Les boys got SS caps
But they got no gun now
Get dressed up get a little risqué
Got to do a little s & m these days
It’s all in fun now

Les boys come on again
For the high class whores
And the businessmen
Who drive in their Mercedes Benz
To a disco bar in old Munchen

They get the jokes that the D.J. makes
They get nervous and they make mistakes
They’re bad for business
Some tourists take a photograph
Les boys don’t get one laugh
He says they’re useless

Late at night when they’ve gone away
Les boys dream of Jean Genet
High heel shoes and a black beret
And the posters on the wall that say
Les boys do cabaret
Les boys are glad to be gay


48 posted on 02/27/2009 2:40:56 PM PST by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: Candor7
Juliet: "Oh Romeo, whilst though affix thy lips to my nether root, and while away thy suicidal sores of pestilent buggery?"

I think I just threw up ... internally.  =)

49 posted on 02/27/2009 3:50:49 PM PST by softwarecreator (Definition of a sucker: Pay your bills like a responsible adult to pay for those who didn't!)
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To: Candor7
Juliet: "Oh Romeo, whilst though affix thy lips to my nether root, and while away thy suicidal sores of pestilent buggery?"

I think I just threw up ... internally.  =)

50 posted on 02/27/2009 3:51:05 PM PST by softwarecreator (Definition of a sucker: Pay your bills like a responsible adult to compensate for those who didn't!)
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To: Cap'n Crunch
GANDALF!!!! GANDALF IS A POOFTER????? SAY IT AIN’T SO!!!

Yeah, you don't want to know where that ring's been, either.

51 posted on 02/27/2009 3:54:15 PM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: softwarecreator
Sorry. These gay power iconoclasts make be angry.
52 posted on 02/27/2009 4:24:40 PM PST by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, ( member NRA)
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To: presidio9

***...and the whole point was trying work out which was which.***

THAT was the whole point of Shakespeare? Drat! They kept telling us in school that there was a deep meaning to each of his plays. Boy, did they waste our time in school.


53 posted on 02/27/2009 4:48:16 PM PST by kitkat (THE DAY WE LOSE OUR WILL TO FIGHT WILL BE THE DAY WE LOSE OUR FREEDOM.)
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To: Candor7
These gay power iconoclasts make be angry.

Tell me about it. They are pushing their sickening agenda on our kids every day. This should be child abuse.

54 posted on 02/27/2009 6:19:55 PM PST by softwarecreator (Definition of a sucker: Pay your bills like a responsible adult to compensate for those who didn't!)
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To: presidio9
The version was praised by actor Sir Ian McKellen when he saw it last month...

The balrog should have won.

55 posted on 02/28/2009 6:03:59 AM PST by fwdude ("...a 'centrist' ... has few principles - and those are negotiable." - Don Feder)
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To: presidio9

10%? You’re kidding, right?

That’s been debunked and even admitted as a lie by homosexual activists for years.


56 posted on 03/01/2009 7:05:53 PM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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To: presidio9

I wonder if they plan to put this play on in Londonistan.


57 posted on 03/01/2009 7:08:30 PM PST by DLfromthedesert
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To: little jeremiah
10%? You’re kidding, right?

I was playing by liberal rules to make my point. In reality, no one really knows, for obvious reasons. However, the the accepted figure is usually between 1 and 3 per cent of the total population is gay, with 75-80% of all homosexuals being male.

Is that better?

58 posted on 03/01/2009 8:23:16 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam Is As Islam Does)
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To: presidio9

Sorry if was harsh; too many debates on the topic!


59 posted on 03/01/2009 8:45:27 PM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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To: little jeremiah

Would have thought you knew me better than that by now.


60 posted on 03/01/2009 8:54:01 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam Is As Islam Does)
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