Good riddance (in response to Tesse's post the other day)

[ceebeegee]

Scott Eckern resigns.

Scott Eckern has announced his resignation as artistic director of California Musical Theatre following public turmoil in response to his financial support of California's Proposition 8.

What kind of fool issues that kind of insult to the people with whom he works everyday? Moron.

"Go home and sit in judgement on yourselves." (A nickel to anyone who can identify the movie that's from.)

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He's a Mormon--I guess he was constantly being told by his church that this was no big deal. But the guy worked with gay people every day--I mean, musical theater, for crying out loud! Yeah, really, how CAN you be that stupid? That tone-deaf? He didn't even just vote for it, he contributed a thousand dollars.

Some people are saying this is the equivalent to the '50s blacklist--I don't agree. Believing that marriage should be between a man and a woman is not the same as contributing to a specific political cause whose sols purpose is to take away a minority group's rights. Just as you can be a racist in your heart and not actually act on those beliefs (through hate crimes, etc.). None of the blacklisted in the '50s had actually contributed materially to the overthrow of the US givernment--beliefs are not the same as actions.