I kid you not.

I wish I was joking about this. I wish it was all a bad dream (or rather a nightmare). Let me digress...

So I was invited by the hubby's brother to go to a church musical Saturday night. Me, along with the hubby's sister and niece, decided to go despite the fact that most church plays suck. Either way, we though it would be nice to support the hubby's brother and support the church. All good things, right?

We ate a glorious dinner at this old italian restaurant. We had pizza (mmm, one of my favs), this awesome salad that was piled high with cheese and of course some bread. We ate, we talked, we all enjoyed time spent child-less for the first time in a veeeery long time. We finished up dinner and picked up the brother-in-law and headed to the church.

We sat down and once the show started realized we were four of only 22 people total in the audience. This made all of us feel uncomfortable because we knew the actors would be looking right at us during the musical...and they did. I made eye contact with more people in the play then I would like to admit. Controlling my facial reactions to look pleased, but not too pleased. To look energized (and not half falling asleep), but not overly excited.

The musical was Godspell and, as I was informed, can be left up to the director's intepritation a bit. Hmm, sounds interesting, right?

Well let me just tell you the three high points of the musical:

1) There was an old woman in the production who sang like a barking seal. (Special Note: There were several other actors/singers who were extremely talented, so that kind of made up for the barking).

2) They washed their feet with the American flag. And then offered to wash the audience's respective feet with said flag.

3) At the end, when Jesus is crucified, instead of nailing him to the cross they waterboard him with the American flag.

I kid you not.

I was MORE than horrified by all of this. Let me just throw this out there- I am a liberal and I believe in freedom of speech and I am pretty in line with a lot of what the lefties believe in. My husband is slightly more conservative, but he is right there with me. However, I was appauled by this.

The hubby is a veteran of the U.S. Army and although he didn't serve during wartime, he nonetheless risked his life for our country. I respect him and others who are and have served and think it is crap that they are bringing politics and digracing our flag in a church. I mean, are you kidding me?

I wish I would have brought my camera to capture a decent photo of it because I'm telling you, you would be mortified to see this. Just hearing about it, I'm sure, is bad enough, but seeing it was worse.

Oh and I forgot to mention, in the director's rant, in the pamphlet they handed out, he went on and on about the weirdest stuff- comparing Nascar to the devil. Uhhh, what? It was so weird.