Isaac Hayes’ Intolerant Hypocrisy

“What’s wrong, chil’ren?” That is the line that South Park fans expect to hear from Chef, the black school chef and all around ladies’ man from South Park.

Now the actor who portrays Chef, Isaac Hayes, is quitting because he doesn’t like South Park’s cartoon portrayal of the church of Scientology. The same actor who remained silent while South Park creators portrayed Jesus getting shot to death by Iraqi militants during a Christmas show, and forest animals engaged in an animal orgy around a nativity scene, somehow became self-righteous when the show lampooned the idiotic members of his loony “religion.”

Matt Stone and Trey Parker have exposed Mormons in the past too, but Isaac Hayes didn’t appear to object to that episode so much.

From the AP Here:

NEW YORK – Isaac Hayes has quit “South Park,” where he voices Chef, saying he can no longer stomach its take on religion.

Hayes, who has played the ladies’ man/school cook in the animated Comedy Central satire since 1997, said in a statement Monday that he feels a line has been crossed.

“There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins,” the 63-year-old soul singer and outspoken Scientologist said.

“South Park” co-creator Matt Stone responded sharply in an interview with The Associated Press Monday, saying, “This is 100 percent having to do with his faith of Scientology… He has no problem and he’s cashed plenty of checks with our show making fun of Christians.”

Last November, “South Park” targeted the Church of Scientology and its celebrity followers, including actors Tom Cruise and John Travolta, in a top-rated episode called “Trapped in the Closet.”

Stone told The AP he and co-creator Trey Parker “never heard a peep out of Isaac in any way until we did Scientology. He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin.“

So long, Chef. I will be sure to not let your objections to religious portrayal prevent me from watching South Park. Maybe Chef will be brutally murdered in every upcoming episode like they used to do with poor Kenny. I’m looking forward to seeing how Chef gets written out of the show.

Matt and Trey also need to get around to portraying the religion of Islam for the brutal teachings it actually espouses too.