Quote of the Day

On Comedy Central's axing of a South Park episode which made fun of scientology, the creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone had this to say:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for Earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!
-- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants of the dark lord Xenu

They also responded to Isaac Hayes' quitting of the show, accompanied by the following release:

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs of others begins... As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

with their own:

This has nothing to do with intolerance and bigotry and everything to do with the fact that Isaac Hayes is a Scientologist... In 10 years and over 150 episodes of 'South Park,' Isaac never had a problem with the show making fun of Christians, Muslims, Mormons and Jews. He got a sudden case of religious sensitivity when it was his religion featured on the show. To bring the civil-rights struggle into this is just a non sequitur.

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