This week the boys from South Park took a hilarious crack at Christianity. Last nights episode, “Cartman Sucks” started off with Cartman showing pictures he had taken of Butters while he slept, to the rest of the boys. Cartman not only named the pictures everything from “Pierre,” a cat poo mustache, to “Hot Fudge Monday,” but he made a pretty scrapbook collection out of the pictures and considered them an art form.

The real story starts when Cartman tells the rest of the gang that he took the best picture of Butters with his penis in Cartman’s mouth. Kyle convinces Cartman that having a penis in his mouth makes him gay and the only way Cartman can undo being gay would be to put his penis into Butters’ mouth. When Cartman attempts to trick Butters into this precarious situation, Butters’ dad walks in on them and automatically assumes that Butters is “bi-curious” and sends him to “Camp New Grace” where you “pray the gay away.”

At camp, Butters is told that with the power of Christ and prayer he can be normal again. All of the boys in the camp are around 8-years-old and are headed for “eternity in hell” unless they change their ways. Many of the boys who can’t change the way they feel end up killing themselves. The camp counselors respond to the suicides with a compliant, “we’ve got another one.”

The events of suicide and the ideas of damnation in this episode are not funny; however the hypocrisy of the church and the ideologies of the gay camp are written in a way that makes the situation funny. Butters, as always, is ignorant to what is going on around him and is told that he is damned to an eternity in hell.

With all the boys damned to hell for being gay and Butters having no idea what it means to be bi-curious, confusion for the boy is no surprise. All of the camp counselors tell him he is confused and he agrees. It is not until Butters’ “acountabillabuddy” is about to jump off a bridge because of the camp telling him he is an “abomination of God” that Butters snaps and the message of the episode is clear.

“I wasn’t confused. You are the ones who are confused. And you know what, I like being bi-curious,” Butters said to the counselors and priests of the camp. It’s clear what Trey Parker and Matt Stone are saying in this episode: It’s not an abomination of God to be gay and you can’t pray the gay away. Being gay has nothing to do with God and Christians should quit trying to change people who feel that way. This episode offends only those Christians who believe this way.

The offense level this week would be 2 out of 5 mostly because the people Stone and Parker are offending don’t typically watch South Park, even though they should. It might open their eyes to their hypocrisy.