South Park petition: No, Tom Cruise, censorship is not awesome!

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On Wednesday, March 22, 2006, Comedy Central suddenly switched out episodes of South Park -- replacing the previously-scheduled 'Trapped in the Closet' without any explanation. According to a friend of mine (secretary for a certain company that owns Comedy Central), Tom Cruise has blackmailed the company into not showing the episode, which portrays him as a homosexual and his religion (Scientology) as a cult.


From Hollywood Interrupted:

'Sources from inside Paramount and South Park Studios report that parent company Viacom pulled last night's scheduled repeat of the high-rated 'Trapped in the Closet' episode after the humorless Scientologist movie star Tom Cruise threatened to cancel all publicity for Mission Impossible 3 if Comedy Central aired the episode that satirizes Scientology and mocks his sexuality again. Not only is this the first time that the South Park creators have been officially censored in their ten hit seasons with Comedy Central, Viacom officials also reportedly ordered Matt Stone and Trey Parker not to discuss the reason why their episode was cancelled.'

The creators have yet to comment, but Comedy Central has offered this explanation:

'In light of the events of earlier this week, we wanted to give "