Say It Isn't So, Issac!

Issac Hayes has left South Park.

I remember when I first heard about South Park, back when it was little more than an internet phenom. I downloaded the clip and laughed hysterically as Jesus and Santa Claus faced off in a battle over Christmas.

I've been laughing ever since, and often it was because of the character Chef, voiced by Issac Hayes. He's been a regular on the show since it began in 1997 - that's 9 years, folks. But no more.

Why? Religious differences. This decision comes after the show's brilliant "Trapped in the Closet" episode, that manages to make fun of Tom Cruise's sexuality, the Church of Scientology, and R. Kelly with the same theme. Issac happens to be a Scientologist himself.

"There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs of others begins," the 63-year-old soul singer and Scientologist said in a statement. "Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored," he continued. "As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices."

Oh really?

This is a show that regularly has one character, Cartman, make fun of his jewish friend, Kyle, for being a Jew. The same show that satirized christian rock bands, has Satan as the gay effeminate lover of Saddam Hussein, that called Mormons stupid, had a statue of the virgin mary bleed out of her ass, that had woodland animals performing satanic rites to bring the animal antichrist into the world, where Jesus has a public access television show...

Don't be a hypocrite, Issac. You're just upset that they finally got around to those nutjobs you hang with. You had no problem with them having your character call all the white folk in South Park "crackas"; you also had no problem singing such classic South Park Chef songs as:

Chocolate Salty Balls

Say everybody, have you seen my balls?/They're big and salty and brown./ If you ever need a quick pick me up/Just stick my balls in your mouth.

The Prostitute Song

A prostitute is someone who will love you/No matter who you are or what you look like/But that's not why you pay prostitute. No, you don't pay her to stay/You pay her to leave afterwards/That's why I praise the Lord for prostitutes!

Sometimes you kill your teacher

"Sometimes you kill your teacher and they find your semen in her stomach, and uh"

Chef on Where Babies Come From

"When a man loves a woman/And a woman loves a man/...Well, sometimes the man doesn't love the woman,/But he pretends like he does, in order to get some action."

But let's not make fun of Tom and Katie. Uh-uh, children.

Hypocrite.