Wicked A New MuscialDid you see this? It's been reported that even though Wicked author Stephen Schwartz finds it "reprehensible" what the Mormon church has done, getting Prop 8 to defeat gay marriage in California, he's still allowing the church to license his material to help promote church doctrine, mainly via their youth entertainment group, the Young Ambassadors.
Excuse me, but since when did it become kosher to do business with the enemy?
I'll tell you: When business is more important to you than taking a stand. Schwartz so beautifully had an opportunity to make this pro-gay-marriage point by telling the Mormons they couldn't bite the homosexual hand that feeds them, but he ultimately chose not to.
Full disclosure: I know Schwartz was mulling it all over because he told that to my partner, Jon Powell, a one-time member of the Ambassadors. But S.S. chickened out. What kind of proud gay man would allow his work to be used to preach antigay doctrine? A scared, avaricious one. And no, Jon, didn't ask me to write this—I'm actually going to be in very deep doo-doo for doing it.
That's what happens when you marry a gossip columnist.