I am so sick of bible thumpers, politically correct speech police, finger waggers and morals police!!

Someone is always offended by something. Get over it!

I salute the club that is helping to make this performance happen!

Good for them!

Banned high school play to go on — at Ore. college
3/3/2009, 5:41 p.m. PST
The Associated Press

LA GRANDE, Ore. (AP) — A play banned from La Grande High School will instead be done at Eastern Oregon University after the president said she had no choice but to allow a student group to rent space for the performance.

University President Dixie Lund said last week she wouldn't allow high school students to perform Steve Martin's "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" on the campus because the superintendent and school board had forbidden it in at the high school.

But on Monday she got a request from a professor on behalf of the Student Democrats club at Eastern Oregon, asking to host the high school students putting on the play.

Lund said state law ties her hands.

"As a public institution, we must abide by a non-discrimination policy, which permits rental of campus facilities by outside groups or clubs," Lund said.

The young Democrats plan to raise money and provide material for sets and costumes — nothing from the planned high school production can be used.

The La Grande School District Superintendent got a complaint from a parent and a petition signed by 137 people and banned the play, which has references to sex and drinking, features the characters of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso meeting in a Paris bar in 1904, as both were on the verge of breakthrough work. It deals with themes of artistry, genius and the nature of the 20th century.

The school board upheld the decision on a 4-3 vote.

"I was appalled," said Casey Dreher, president of the Student Democrats. "The people who got the play canceled were not the majority."

Tickets won't be sold, but donations will go to a scholarship fund for thespian students at the university. A May run is planned.

Kevin Cahill, the La Grande High School teacher who selected the play and is directing it, said he and the students "will do our best to honor the trust and support shown in us by staging a quality show, which is all we ever wanted to do in the first place."

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Information from: The (La Grande) Observer,

Ah those evil sensors and power tripping bureaucrats!

They come in all states and all flavors.

they are only possible because people think that they have to go tell on someone that offends them. people will always give the power to sensors.