[Snorlax94]

I think it is interesting that people here pan Stanford for "hating fun" and cracking down on things that make Stanford unique, but then when the Stanford band pulls a stunt that shows its irreverence and is 100% consistent with what it has done historically (2004 BYU game, 1997 Notre Dame game, 1990 Oregon show, 1994 impromptu courthouse show, and many more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Band

BC

I didn’t see the skit but  I think the general idea of staging a gay marriage during a halftime show is fair game and potentially funny.

There was apparently some uproar that they did this during the BYU game — but isn’t a key part of humor… timing?

Some people are upset that they apparently used language specific to LDS ceremonies. I wouldn’t know and I never would know because to my understanding, you must be an LDS member in good standing, and currently be tithing, to be permitted inside an LDS ceremony. Because ceremonies are closed off to the world, it could be difficult for anyone to know that they were using LDS-specific wording. One example that has been cited were the words “be fruitful and multiply,” which is not specific to the LDS church. Another example was “for all time and eternity.”

If that is a phrase specific to the LDS Church, then I would think just that wording was inappropriate. I think it’s fine to stage a gay wedding in support of equal rights generally and to broadly mock organizations that oppose those equal rights, but mocking a specific group’s ceremony and wording — which would be sacred to them — crosses a line, and was unnecessary for the joke.

But again, how could anyone reviewing the script *know* the band was specifically mocking LDS ceremonies? It’s hard to criticize someone for not censoring a skit if the public has never been permitted to see what was being parodied.

[Snorlax94]

I think it is interesting that people here pan Stanford for "hating fun" and cracking down on things that make Stanford unique, but then when the Stanford band pulls a stunt that shows its irreverence and is 100% consistent with what it has done historically (2004 BYU game, 1997 Notre Dame game, 1990 Oregon show, 1994 impromptu courthouse show, and many more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Band

BC

I didn’t see the skit but  I think the general idea of staging a gay marriage during a halftime show is fair game and potentially funny.

There was apparently some uproar that they did this during the BYU game — but isn’t a key part of humor… timing?

Some people are upset that they apparently used language specific to LDS ceremonies. I wouldn’t know and I never would know because to my understanding, you must be an LDS member in good standing, and currently be tithing, to be permitted inside an LDS ceremony. Because ceremonies are closed off to the world, it could be difficult for anyone to know that they were using LDS-specific wording. One example that has been cited were the words “be fruitful and multiply,” which is not specific to the LDS church. Another example was “for all time and eternity.”

If that is a phrase specific to the LDS Church, then I would think just that wording was inappropriate. I think it’s fine to stage a gay wedding in support of equal rights generally and to broadly mock organizations that oppose those equal rights, but mocking a specific group’s ceremony and wording — which would be sacred to them — crosses a line, and was unnecessary for the joke.

But again, how could anyone reviewing the script *know* the band was specifically mocking LDS ceremonies? It’s hard to criticize someone for not censoring a skit if the public has never been permitted to see what was being parodied.