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Article: PROTESTS HAVE DIED DOWN, BUT `CORPUS CHRISTI' STILL PROVOCATIVE.(What's Happening)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- March 19, 2004
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Byline: JOE ADCOCK P-I theater critic
"No, no bomb threats," says Jacob Gent. "Seattle is such a tolerant, laissez-faire, live-and-let-live town. I'd be surprised if we had protests."
Of course, New York (or Gomorrah, as some zealots refer to it) has a reputation for extreme permissiveness. And when the premiere of Terrence McNally's tragicomedy "Corpus Christi" was announced as part of the Manhattan Theatre Club's 1998 season, the wrath of God, or at least the wrath of God's self-appointed emissaries, broke loose.
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights promised to "wage a war" against the show. An organization calling itself the ...