"Prop 8 - The Musical": Jack Black, John C. Reilly And More In Funny Or Die Skit (VIDEO)

The hilarious people at "Funny of Die" have put out a new video, "Prop 8 - The Musical." The star-studded participants include Jack Black, Neil Patrick Harris, Margaret Cho, John C. Reilly, Maya Rudolph and many more familiar faces.

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Comments

[joocee102]

I love the musical play, but I ain't budging on my decision to support Prop.8.

Sorry, but you can't have the word marriage, my gay friends. There are 26 word in the alphabet, and I bet you can make one up that means marriage, just not spelled the same. I'll take a shot. How about the word REGGOLB.

[Smith808]

Sorry...we already do.

[willgibbons]

26 words in the alphabet? Seriously?

Anyway, if people want to be happy, let them be happy. According to the Bible, it's not yours or anybody else on this earth's place to pass judgment, so just let people be happy, it's not infringing on you.

[justmeerin]

Um, gays and lesbians have been married in churches for years and even after we all go to some sort of civil union (no legal "marriage" for anyone) they will still be able to be married in some churches. Sooooo, how does supporting Prop 8 keep gays and lesbians away from the word marriage??? And why the f does it matter?

[GrecoDutch]

California already provided my HUSBAND and I a marriage cerificate. Wanna come over and take it away.

Would you like to refund all the gays that were already married in California. Maybe the churches who participated should collect a fund to pay all of us back.

I don't think that will help the California economy.

[abbeyroad]

so true.
bible-thumpers are always hiding behind the children.

Donny Osmond was on Howard Stern's show years ago, and talked about the fact that he and his wife had never engaged in ora l s e x (!!!)

can you imagine what se x is like with a mormon ?
ZZzzzzzzzz ..........­..........­...

[Smith808]

Hi Abbey,

Oooh, but can you imagine what se x is like with an ex-mormon?!

TTTTssssss­s.........­...... (that's the sound of "sizzle") :P

[IDIOTA]

You so nastee -- in the good way. What is that song about the son of a preacher man?

[mikeodd]

It ridiculous that this is even an issue in the twenty-first century. Alas, there's too much hate in the world to just get out of the way and let people live. Anyone who has actually READ Leviticus is aware of its numerous asinine stipulations.

[antaeus]

People against gays are fundamentally superstitious. This is the salt-over-­the-left-s­houlder crowd. The stuff about children is just a smokescreen for their irrational fears.

[BlackYowe]

Really what fears would those be?

[calipublican]

libs are so funny, if they get a vote to go their way it was the will of the people, but if they loose then the vote was stolen and its must be riots in the streets, were was all the support before the vote, why did the issue even come up as a proposition if it was a civil rights issue TWICE, why didnt any of this come up BEFORE the election?

[goodgravy]

you must be one of those ignorant orange county shol.esl.es. have fun at legoland.

[saltpeter]

It came up because, like the 30 odd other propositions on the California ballot, there is a low threshold of work involved with getting a proposition on the ballot in California (less than 30,000 signatures). And, btw, each time the people vote, the margin of victory gets slimmer and slimmer. And by the time those under 30 (the majority of whom support gay marriage) have political pull it WILL BE legal (if the courts haven't already upheld the Constitution and made it so). What people need to realize is that this is the way our system works: majority rules but yet minority rights. If you don't agree, remember that at the beginning of this country, unless you were a white male over 21 who owned property, you were considered a political minority and any and all rights given to any other group of Americans since has been fought for and overwhelmingly won not through popular vote but through legislative acts and court rulings. Prop 8's eventually dismissal (because it will be) will be very much in keeping with non-populist acts like the emancipation of slaves, the right for women to vote, desegregation, and the Voting Rights Act. All of these were made possible because politicians and judges saw the popular tide turning and acted accordingly (ie. in accordance with the long-delayed guarantees of full citizen rights conveyed in the Constitution).

[justmeerin]

It did come up before the election, acutally. The validity to Prop 8 was called into question before we went to vote but the judges decided not to hear the issue unless it actually passed, they didn't want to rule on speculation. It was always a given that if this passed then it would head to the courts to be challenged.

Prop 22 was overturned because it was, in fact, unconstitutional. That's why we have courts, to protect the constitution from mob-rule.

[antaeus]

OK everybody: con-8ers, even Pat Buchanan admitted same-sex marriage is coming, so take heart. Pro-8ers, sorry, you guys are trying to flog radios after we've gotten used to living color. This is coming. Chill out and go roast some chestnuts or something. Ain't nothing you can do to stop this. Prop 8 was just a speed bump.

[mjb5406]

I want to start a poll... anyone who is stupid enough to believe that sexual orientation is a matter of choice, which can be "corrected", raise your hands... I loved reading some of these homophobic comments. A person does not wake up one morning and crave the same gender; it's not like craving a cigarette or a drink. It is not something that can be "fixed" through therapy. Just because religious zealots have convinced themselves (and others) of this lie doesn't make it true.

[ashbachj]

I don't really see why everyone is so obsessed with gay marriage. Let them. It's not hurting anyone. I don't know of any other laws that dictate the personal lives of two consenting adults where nobody is harmed.

For all those people who go on about animals:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6066606.stm

Let people who love each other love each other. You can't change the way they were born.

[BlackYowe]

Sorry you are wrong, it hurts kids. Children need a male and a female roll model.

[mjb5406]

You mean like a man and wife who constantly shout at each other, or where the man beats the woman, or one is an alcoholic or a child predator? Gee, I guess heterosexuality prevents such things from happening; homosexuality is the sole bastion of such indignities.

How stupid can you be?

[mjb5406]

And, it's ROLE model; this is not a bakery we're talking about.

[antaeus]

If they need a "roll" model, then they can go their local bowling alley.

[eternalkerri]

prove it with a valid scientific study from an academic institution/medical study not performed by an activist group/biased source.

[ashbachj]

citation please

[Honner]

Prop 8 The Musical is sheer brilliance with an amazing message delivered in just 3 minutes. Neil Patrick Harris is a very smart fellow indeed. Everyone, gay or straight, needs to watch this video. And for my straight friends who don't really like musical theatre, this one's short!! It'll be over before you know it.

[BlackYowe]

Marriage is the union of a man and a women. Gay people have equal rights when it comes to marriage they can select the person of the opposite sex of their choice to marry just like the rest of us. Sorry marriage has been around for thousands of years and you can't change it on a whim.

[mjb5406]

Your comment makes no sense whatsoever, especially in light of your later comment saying how gay marriage "hurts" children (which is BS). Here you say they have equal rights to marry; later, you infer that they don't since gay marriage damages children. You are inconsistent.

[antaeus]

Too late. Already a done deal in Massachusetts. No sign of turning back. Spain and other countries, too. If you're under 40, then you'll live to see it throughout the US, too . . . if you're lucky :-)

[walk0nwalls]

civil unions =/= marriage in rights

That's not even a legal distinction, that's a very real distinction.

[eternalkerri]

Actually it wasnt until 1545 at the Council of Trent that the Catholic Church even formally ordered that marriage was required to be performed by a priest in a Church for record. It wasnt until the Marriage Act of 1753 that marriage was required to be certified and legally bound by the state under English Common Law......s­o, if you want to get technical, marriage in the sense of "one man, one woman under God" in Western though has only been around for 463 years....

Before that Constantine (you know, the Roman emperor who declared Christianity the faith of the Empire?), had two male lovers and no wife.

It was widely considered in the 12th Century that love and marriage were incompatable, which gave rise to the ideas of "Courtly Love."

The Roman Histories show records of the word marriage to describe same sex couples...­.

Want me to keep going?

[justmeerin]

Many Native American tribes considered homosexuals or Berdaches to be two-spirited and considered them to be very powerful shamans. Men would even marry the homosexual men (usually having females wives also) because they considered them to make very good wives.

So that's another one for all you one man one woman throughout all time people. The list goes on...

Also, eternakerri mentions Constantine. Yes Constantine did decalre Christianity the faith of the Empire, but the reason he did so was interesting. Was it because he was such a devout Christian himself? No. It was because he was sick and tired of the fighting between the pagans and the christians which was tearing his Empire apart. He made Christianity the offical religon, but not before he added a c ra p load of the pagan beliefs, rituals, legends and dates to the religion to help satisfy all the other people he was trying to rule.

[janinwb]

Marriage has been in a constant state of change since it began.

[jigen]

Boy, don't the anti-gay bigots get defensive? They want to strip other people of rights and freedoms — let's face it, if you consider homosexuality a "sin" (a religious classification), you're imposing your religion on others — but they don't want to be seen as regressive and hateful bigots?

They come up with all sorts of bizarre justifications and strange (mostly straw-man) arguments that can be easily overturned just to sidestep the fact that a regressive and hateful bigot stares at them from the mirror.

It's an easy choice:
a) If you don't like the label, don't earn it. Change your mind and your ways. Don't oppose civil rights for other people, or
b) Carry on opposing civil rights for homosexuals, but please admit that you are a regressive and hateful bigot

The label isn't wrong if it matches what's inside you...

[Swerinjer2]

ok thats enuff philosophical thrashing of you prop 8 fringers. I'm off to my asian lesbian pornography and i bid you all a sweet fondue. And please, consider the devaluation, won't you?

[BlackYowe]

Jack Black is funny as always but this is kinda lame I think.

[Swerinjer2]

i wouldnt know i havent watched it.

[macweenie]

Of course you haven't. Kind of like how you don't understand science but you KNOW that evolution is a lie, or that you have never read any of the Harry Potter series but you KNOW that they are all about seducing children into the dark arts.

I'm not sure which is your most sickening trait - your ignorance or your pride in it.

[Swerinjer2]

The opponents of prop 8 HATE straight people. They HATE people who don't have the same value system as they do. they gleefully indulge in gross BIGOTRY when ascribing motivations to supporters of prop 8 to which they cannot possibly be privy, that is of course assuming we were to take them seriously for even a moment. Prop 8 opponents show their moral inferiority by resorting to INSULTS rather than REASON, and hence with a smug vengeance I proclaim they deserve to lose.

[pangursperson]

HAHAHAHAHA­HA....that was good one, what else ya got?

[Swerinjer2]

i got more give me a sec.

[bellamom]

ok well now you are just being silly... "smug vengence"? where do you get this stuff?

[Swerinjer2]

well the words are apt are they not? dont answer that. until you acknowledge my brilliant thesis I cannot take anything you say as anything other than diversion and frustrated outburst.

[kdogg]

I'm trying to decide if you are serious or are being satirical. At one moment you are raving like a lunatic and the next you are smugly talking down to others like a five year old that thinks he knows something no one else knows. I'm confused.

[Swerinjer2]

thats a start.

[byte me]

Confused? Well that's nothing new. Don't worry, we're here to help you.

[nolajam]

I'm a straight person and an opponent of prop 8. I don't hate straight people.
I'm not too crazy about small minded people who are fearful of those not like them, but I don't hate them either.
Without hate, bigotry or insult, may I suggest if you're opposed to gay marriage, don't marry a gay person. Seems reasonable to me.

[antaeus]

A vote to strip fellow citizens of a right that they had already been enjoying is, on its face, mean spirited, especially when the exercise of the right in question is no skin off anybody's nose, yours included.

[justmeerin]

AND especially when allowing special interest groups the power to decide our elections and take away ANY right or freedom is WRONG FOR ALL OF US.

There was no good reason for this. The only argument that stood up to a truth test was "I just don't like it" or "my religion tells me it's wrong". And that is NOT a valid reason for an attempt at a consitution amendement OR revision.

[db572]

Sick. Gag me with a spoon!

[kdogg]

why would i want to gag a homophobe with anything?

[Swerinjer2]

patronizing others gives you cancer.

[db572]

Call it what you want, but I don't see other animals doing the same. Why are we teaching children that this act is normal?

[Tyrus]

Great video!

Gets most of the points across except the most important one. People don't choose to be gay they are born that way. People discover they are hetero in the same way - they just respond to the opposite sex at a very early age.

People need to be educated. Some fear that "gayness" can be spread like a virus and react for prop 8 based on that assumption. Straight couples raise gay kids with every intention that they be straight adults. There is no incentive in a homophobic culture for kids to opt for "gayness". The only reason is that they are hard wired and are just oriented that way.

I don't know the statistics ,but I would bet the gay population hasn't increased much as a percentage of the general society -- if you allow for all the closet cases that just had to hide or marry to keep their secret.

You are either born gay or not. Choice is not involved. Gay marriage is not a threat to anyone who understands this - a human rights issue at the core.

[Swerinjer2]

your assumptions are wrong, like most prop 8 opponents.

Government sez 2 men married is the same as man and woman married.

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"women arent needed for marriage".

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Young girl learning her government devalues her role in marriage. She is not needed. She is dispensable to society because of her gender. Her self-esteem is hurt.

There's the negative consequences of gay marriage right there. and i dont appreciate being called names simply for voting yes on 8. If every prop 8 opponent on these forums is representative of all of prop 8 opponents, then i'm glad you lost if only because you are all just rude, mean-spirited jerks.

[Beaupedia]

Your comment boggles my mind. You realize gay marriage includes lesbian couples too, right? Should young men take away from a lesbian marriage that they aren't needed in society?

You, my dear Prop 8 supporter, are confused.

[bellamom]

I don't understand why you would think that any young girl would want to be married to a gay man? The real self-esteem issue is if you are married to somebody who is not physically attracted to you - and gay men would, by nature, not be physically attracted to women. Why would any straight man want to be married to a lesbian? So he can force his wife to have sex with him, even though she does not desire him? Your argument only makes sense if you believe that homosexuality is a choice.

[pangursperson]

This must be the lamest argument against gay marriage I've ever heard. So what do you say to two women wanting to get married? That it devalues men?

Gay marriage doesn't devalue anyone or anything.

[walk0nwalls]

Wow, I can't believe this is serious. Is he serious?

Poe's law all over this one.

[saltpeter]

LESBIANS can marry too. Why is when bigots (who like to cloke their irrational fear in equally irrational logic) always regard gay as being 2 men. It is a threat to their manhood that two men like to get it on? If you don't want to be called names for supporting Prop 8 then try to use some semblance of sense when you talk about your rationale. You're really clutching at straws and your fake moral outrage is showing.

[BlackYowe]

The science is not there for that statement. Most scientists think you may be born with a tendency to be Gay but environmental factors also come into play. This whole thing that Gay is another normal facet of human sexuality is flawed. There are males and there are females and there are those whose wiring is messed up and can't figure out that the square peg doesn't go in the round hole, LOL. This probably will not get posted but its the truth like it or not. Take it from Farmer Brown here.

[antaeus]

This is the same-sex _marriage_ debate. You seem to want the antique, long-been-settled, throwback-­to-the-196­0s debate.

[Eric8869]

You can go to cbs.com and go to 60 minutes - they did a whole story on the studying of genetics in making people gay.

If environmental factors were the issue then gay people would be straight.

[walk0nwalls]

Unless you raise penguins Farmer Brown I don't want to hear from you and while we're at it the entire cast of whatever the hell they taught me in kindergarten can now stop coming back to haunt me in my later years.

[justmeerin]

Not true, science has all but proven homosexuality to be biological--not that it matters. You probably don't believe in evolution either. Check out the research done of brain hemisphere size as it relates to gender attraction.