At least its not South Pacific.... again.

Parents in the oh so upper middle class neighborhood of La Canada (it's where JPL lives) were aghast to learn that the local High School's musical production would be, gasp, Batboy:

Last week, detractors and supporters of "Bat Boy: The Musical," now in rehearsal, packed a meeting of the La Cañada Unified School District board. Worried parents asked officials to cancel the production of the satiric comedy about a creature who is half-human, half-bat. A representative of the conservative group Focus on the Family flew in from Colorado to speak to the board, which met on the campus.

Yes indeedy, no issue is too small for the dreaded FotFers to poke their thin white noses into. And no wonder why:

A couple who asked that their daughter's name not be used said she read the script because she had considered trying out for the show.

"She told me, 'There is no way I would be in this play,' " the mother said, adding that she believed the play's themes ran counter to her daughter's values and the family's Christian faith.

Just goes to show that for some people "Christianity" is an easy excuse for opposing whatever they want to oppose. When in fact:

"It's very unusual for anyone to be up in arms over 'Bat Boy' in high school," Flemming said in an interview. There have been about a dozen high school productions, including one last year at Jesuit High School near Sacramento. There, Flemming said, the musical was used by teachers to prompt discussion about tolerance and dramatic theory.

Sure, the Soldiers of Jesus have the balls to deal with tough issues, something little Susie Evangelical apparently isn't prepared for. I'm only guessing here, but she's probably ok with the incest, rape and murder, you see that stuff on TV everyday (especially if you watch Fox), but tolerance? Now that's too much to ask.

And finally, on the FotF factor, a little joke from the play's author:

On his website, Brian Flemming, who wrote the musical with Keythe Farley, thanked the board for supporting the drama department's decision to stage the play. "Apparently the drama students at the meeting were quite eloquent in defense of the freak (Bat Boy, not Dobson)," Flemming wrote, referring to Focus on the Family leader James Dobson.

And speaking of Dobson, if you don't tolerate the intolerant, does that make you intolerant yourself?