Friday, January 18, 2013

Who died and left you speaking for God?

CAST OF CHARACTERS

John Swallow.  An ultra-right wing Tea Partier that just got elected Attorney General for the State of Utah.  In his week in office he has already started fundraising for the next election and is embroiled in a bribery scandal that is currently under investigation.

Gayle Ruzicka.  Phone-tree Queen of the Eagle Forum of Utah, she was instrumental in creating a controversy over a local High School production of “Dead Man Walking”, where the patron comments to the Jordan School District were 699 in favor (give or take a few) to 1 opposed (exactly 1, no more, no less according to the district spokesperson herself).  This also lead to the recent cancellation, (after 3 month of student practices, set building and choreography), of another High School’s production of “All Shook Up”.  (Again, 1 patron caused the cancellation, which was only reversed after the copyright holder agreed to the required concessions.)

THE STAGE:

The conference room at the downtown Salt Lake Radisson Hotel.

ACT ONE:

The conference room is filled with people attending the opening day speeches for the Annual Eagle Forum of Utah pre-Legislative Session Conference. Gayle is on stage at the VIP table.  Enter Jon Swallow, stage left…

John : “Welcome, blah, blah, blah.”

Audience applause.

John: “Blah, blah, blah and some yadda, yadda, yadda".”

More audience applause.

John: “Gayle Ruzicka blah, blah, blah, when she passes, she’ll be going straight to the Celestial Kingdom, yak, yak, yak, blah, blah, yadda, yadda.”

Much applause.  Curtain closes, applause fades.

END of Act One


Ok, I wasn’t actually there, so I used a little poetic license in the setting and dialog.

But our Attorney General did actually* claim that this hate-filled woman that feels the need to force her special definition of a “proper lifestyle” on every citizen of the State of Utah**  would be headed directly to the highest level of Heaven.

*according to the Salt Lake Tribune.
**and beyond.

Or, in the words of a friend of mine who’s LDS; “No she’s not.  Unless I’ve grossly misunderstood my lessons all these years.”

6 comments:

Lisa Shafer said...

One happy thought: All Shook Up did get reinstated with the permission of the copyright holders to change a couple of lines in one song and to remove (I think) one joke. :)

Oh, and did you see Bagley's cartoon today about the store that charges liberals more for everything?

Max Sartin said...

No, I didn't, and I can't even find the cartoon either in my paper or on the Trib website. And I wasn't even aware that there was a store like that. I'd think that was illegal, and how do they know anyway. Ask you at the check-out counter? Check your party membership? Ask for your ID and do a web search for you before ringing you up? Enquiring minds want to know.

Max Sartin said...

Ahhh, good old Google. I got my answers, and anyone interested can check out the Salt Lake Tribune online report here.

Lisa Shafer said...

Here's the Bagley cartoon if you still can't find it:
http://pinterest.com/pin/36451078205869989/

Max Sartin said...

Oh yeah, I saw that one, I just didn't know about the store so I didn't make the connection. Even funnier now.

Lisa Shafer said...

:)