Good For Ron Howard

I'm not a huge fan of his work, but gay groups are pressuring him to remove a gay joke form his newest film:

"I defend the right for some people to express offense at a joke as strongly as I do the right for that joke to be in a film," Howard said. "But if storytellers, comedians, actors and artists are strong-armed into making creative changes, it will endanger comedy as both entertainment and a provoker of thought."

Make no mistake, these types of demands from politically correct groups are the enemies of art and free expression. If the joke doesn't play, it doesn't play. That is the test. Removing all jokes that may offend a minority or persecuted group is the path to creative disaster.