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Isn't the Wildmon Gang (AFA) becoming the 21st century version of the old White Citizen Councils? AFA *fails* to mention that the Great Passion Play was started by a Anti Semite and Jew Baiting preacher named Gerald L. K. Smith. Eureka has always been a bit free spirited, free thinking, and mostly GLBT friendly long before the first Diversity Weekend or En Femme Getaway.

And all these 'Family this' or 'Family that' gangs are just getting started, well, re-started. The Huck candidacy is legitimizing every last nasty 'ism' in the country. It is poetic (and revealing) how the Dems are offering the first black/woman in comparison to the Repubs offering us a road trip back to women being second-class citizens and gays being 'ungodly'...therefore open to rightful persecution. (It's amazing how such nasty prejudices against gays/women become OK when God gets in the mix...or, rather when some 'man' interprets for God.) Go Eureka Springs...keep the prejudice within all those so-called Republican 'Family' gangs.

Somebody builds a big honkin' Jesus statue and a cheesy outdoor theatre and the whole town is henceforth Christian? There's only one thing to do now: Build some big honkin' statues of the Village People.

Just how do they "impose" a gay agenda on anyone much less an entire community? I recall the entire city of ES voting on the annual GLBT celebration. I've spend many days in ES and no one ever "imposed"
an agenda on me, save for their strict parking rules.

It's amazing how often wingnut christian groups can find something new to hate. What office are they running for this time?

the Great Passion Play was started by a Anti Semite and Jew Baiting preacher named Gerald L. K. Smith.<<

I second that Ms Haley 65. The best thing about stone-cold jesus statue and the play is that it's kept a lot of good gay folks in good weed over the years.

If they want to raise hell about something click bluename.

"...The best thing about stone-cold jesus statue and the play is that it's kept a lot of good gay folks in good weed over the years."

Well now that puts a whole new, fun spin on the Passion Play. Them gay folk are wonderfully adaptive...had to be. Over the years/anniversaries, Hubby and I have visited Eureka often...and that was without knowing we were supporting our gay brothers/sisters. But looking back, I should have instinctively known the city was too unique, beautiful and fun to be the progeny of the brain-dead Family-Fraud gang...that's Branson.

Yup, "the gays" ran out of peninsulas to be driven to and are "infiltrating" fly-over Amurika with their dreaded "agenda." YIKES!!! BTW, what's become of Ted Haggard? Has Wildmon taken him back? I'm thinking maybe he's been advising the Siloam Springs anti-vibrator movement...

I said it yesterday about folks in Siloam Springs and Gentry.. who want to outlaw butt plugs and attract internet porn people from all over the country.. They need to be investigated.. Christo-fascists are the danger and these outbursts should serve as a a warning, you know the the kind of warning where people rise up in advance of an imminent threat unlike Bushco, just like Osama sent warnings long before attacks. Hello? They are sick and this is a cry for an intervention. I have long thought these folks would get way out of hand as they lose their perceived power when Bushco and others fall from their pillars of lies, murder, and theft.

The passion play is first a money machine, second, a way to justify feeling better about raking in the tax free cash. I first attended the passion play over thirty years ago as a child tourist from central Arkansas... and first moved to ES nearly twenty-five years ago.. Just like anywhere else I have been and I have moved and traveled all around the world... the people who are the worst are organized crime and organized religious nut-cases... often they are one and the same. Always the religious nut cases are the most overt and most threatening.

Wildman and Co. is a modern day Klans-man. Our entire community will take them seriously enough to publicly laugh them right out of town.. I sincerely hope law enforcement takes the modern day Klan seriously enough to do something in advance of their DVD threats.

The gays are coming! The gays are coming! Everybody color coordinate and remember, no matter what, never, and i mean never, wear stripes with plaid.

Hahaha. Classic.

You are so right, Eureka- the Passion Play is a money machine, but its day is past- anybody who cares about such hokey crap has had their fill by now. I was a laborer on the crew that built the ampitheater, the museum and such. One day, the egomaniac con man Bob Hyde (who conceived and recorded the whole soundtrack,sold the concept to the bigot Gerald L.K. Smith, and played Jesus) came around with our paychecks and told us we had to show up for audition/casting/rehearsals that weekend or don't come back to work Monday. I played one of the apostles (a James) the first season. The most bizarre thing, though, was going out in the cold to check out an appearance by Jim Bakker (Tammy Faye didn't show- laid up at the Inn of the Ozarks) and some awful family gospel throwbacks with a boombox. Security was very apparent, several of Eureka's finest plus all the Smith Foundation goons stood at the front scanning the crowd and muttering into walkie-talkies, now and then touching their shoulder holsters to reassure themselves. I don't remember a thing Bakker said, only that his head was several sizes too large for his body. As for Eureka, it would still be a sad remnant like it was in the fifties and sixties, without the infusion of talent,community spirit and grace that began in the early seventies with the arrival of various new life forms.