Isaac Hayes has a lot of nerve, leaving South Park because they ripped on Scientology and he's a Scientologist! What a hypocrite! South Park rips on everybody, including themselves. Matt Stone is Jewish, and Trey Parker is Christian, and they'll be the first to show the ridiculousness of their faith and some of the people who follow it. If Isaac Hayes had a problem with the lack of religious sensitivity on the show, he should have quit during season one, where they show Kyle's mother Sheila, as a stereotypical Jewish mama. And he never had a problem with the representations of Jesus as a 99 pound weakling either.

Matt Stone says it best:

This has nothing to do with intolerance and bigotry and everything to do with the fact that Isaac Hayes is a Scientologist and that we recently featured Scientology in an episode of 'South Park.' In ten years and over 150 episodes of 'South Park,' Isaac never had a problem with the show making fun of Christians, Muslims, Mormons and Jews. He got a sudden case of religious sensitivity when it was his religion featured on the show. To bring the civil rights struggle into this is just a non-sequiter. Of course we will release Isaac from his contract and we wish him well.

I wish him well too. Now my curiosity lies in how they're going to get rid of Chef. On one messageboard someone had the cool idea that Chef loses his voice and has to sign for the rest of the series. Or maybe he can wear Kenny's orange parka and nobody will understand him anymore because his voice is muffled.

Either way, South Park is still going to kick ass!