Yowzers! Some of Hollywood's most medium sized names are coming out for a new gay "screwball comedy," For Better or Worse.

Soleil Moon Frye, Janeane Garofalo, Chad Allen, Rebecca Gayheart, and Patrick Muldoon have all signed on to the Brad Rowe-produced project, which will shoot this summer.

Frye will play the lesbian minister presiding over the ceremony at the home of one groom's mother (Ruta Lee). The guests include the jilted ex of one of the grooms and his new beau (Muldoon and Allen), a closeted neighbor (Stanley Kamel), a wallflower sister (Gayheart), a family-man brother (Rowe) and his nanny (Garofalo), who has a bombshell to drop.

Please, please, please let her be a man!

Chad Allen makes no secret of his gay ways. How can he? The actor got outed on a tabloid back in 1996!

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Chad Allen’s new movie End of the Spear is still causing a commotion among those vocal evangelicals. Their panties are still in a bunch about homo Allen playing a religious missionary (OMG, we just know they wanted Bible Belt fave Tim Allen in the role), they’re helping the film almost totally recoup its budget.

Never ones to let us down, our holy budding casting agents bless us with a few choice quotes. After all, it is the children they’re looking out for.

Many evangelicals are concerned that young people inspired by the movie will look up Mr. Allen on the Web and "get exposed to his views on homosexuality, and that would cause some of them to question Biblical views of homosexuality and every other sin," said Will Hall, executive director of BPNews.net, the news service of the Southern Baptist Convention, which has published articles critical of Every Tribe's decisions.

Another one, a Reverend Jason Janz, proves his firm grasp on the ability to create an irreverent pop culture (and sort of faggy) simile:

"Does anyone really believe that Chad Allen was the best possible actor for Nate Saint?" Mr. Janz asked in his Jan. 12 Web log entry, referring to one of the characters in the movie. "That would be like Madonna playing the Virgin Mary."

Don't get our hopes up there, Jenz. Talk about a role Madge was born to play.

Evangelical Filmmakers Criticized for Hiring Gay Actor [NY Times]

Christian conservatives continue to whine about anything gay that even touches their religion. Bored with crucifying The Book of Daniel, they’re now turning their pitchforks and flaming torches to cutie Chad Allen and his new based ona true story movie, End of the Spear.

Critics are praising the movie and plenty of churches have been promoting it. But since finding out Allen is gay, religious folks feel as if they've been duped into promoting a film with a flaming ‘mo portraying a holy missionary.

That oh-so unbiased World Net Daily digs up one of the real life kids of Allen’s character, Steve Saint (the religious associations just don't stop):

Saint admitted, however, he was shocked when he learned Allen was homosexual. "I could feel physical pain," he recalled, "thinking [that] somebody that lives a lifestyle like that is going to depict my dad."

Funny. We had a similar physical reaction when we found out hets Jake and Heath were going to play gay onscreen. But we were just simply overcome by the hotness factor.

So what does all of this negative attention to End of the Spear really mean? More publicity and a larger box office. As usual.

Controversy swirls over 'gay' playing missionary in movie [World Net Daily]
End of the Spear [Official Site]