It should come as no shock

It should come as a shock to no one that there is a something I have the right.....Nay, the duty to write a piece on. It's kept me up at night and I've been thinking about for three days. It's about freedom of the press and freedom of speech and I don't think I can hold back any longer.

"TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET? A week after Isaac Hayes asked to be released from his South Park contract due to the shows mocking of Scientology, Variety reporting that Viacom-owned Comedy Central refused to air a rerun Wednesday night of the infamous Tom Cruise/Scientology-skewering episode, Trapped in the Closet, after the star threatened not to promote Mission: Impossible 3. Cruise's reps deny he ever made such a threat." www.E.Newsdaily.com

I don't know where you stand on this issue but I definitely think it sucks that Chef has left South Park. I mean come on "chocolate Salty Balls" was awesome. Everything Chef did was great. It's a sad sad day. However I do completely agree with South Park co-creator Matt Stone who said:

"This is 100 percent having to do with his faith of Scientology," Stone told the Associated Press. "He has no problem and he's cashed plenty of checks with our show making fun of Christians. [W]e 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."

The Onion's Av Club published an interview with Hayes in which he doesn't sound as pissed as he is now you can read it here:
http://www.avclub.com/content/node/44132/2

Honestly I don't care about anyone's religion, but trying to enforce your opinions and beliefs on someone else is just wrong. It doesn't matter if George W. Bush, Saddam, or Tom Cruise. It's just wrong. "Viva Le South Park."