'Jerry Springer: The Opera' comes to Lakewood; controversy follows

[Fuddnik]

It's so entertaining when fundies get their shorts twisted up in a knot over a play.



LAKEWOOD, Ohio -- In a brawl fit for "The Jerry Springer Show," America's culture wars have come to Lakewood. We have a ringside seat.

In this corner, a popular and acclaimed musical satire where opera singers spout nearly 300 profanities, Klansmen tap-dance, the whore-mongers are transgender and Jesus takes on a Satan-Adam-Eve tag team.

In the other corner, a website that preaches the United States would be better off if we all believed reports by three children that the Virgin Mary appeared in a field in Portugal in 1917.

And in the crossfire of this confrontation of values is the Beck Center for the Arts, where "Jerry Springer: The Opera" and America Needs Fatima will slug it out next month.

The first 18,000 punches have already been thrown.

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