Prop 8 attorney to MPAA on Bully rating: 'They better shape up or here we come'

Jeremy Kinser of The Advocate reports that attorneys David Boies and Ted Olson, who successfully challenged California’s ban on same-sex marriage, are not amused that the Motion Picture Association of America has rated the documentary Bully as an "R" and refuses to budge, which prevents it from being shown in schools.

Neither lawyer minced words during a recent screening at New York's Paley Center for Media.

“How ridiculous and unfair and damaging it is to have a film of this power and importance that is being censored by a rating system that has got simply no rational basis,” Boies says. “You can kill kids, you can maim them, you can torture them and still get a PG-13 rating, but if they say a couple of bad words you blame them. I hope, for heaven's sake, that they find some rational basis before we have to sue them to revise the rating system."

     ...“This is an irrational decision, and I've heard it defended as '[The MPAA] really can't do anything about it because if we make an exception here, they'll be all sorts of people lined up wanting to have exceptions made with respect to their movies,'” Olson says. “What a reason for not doing something. So they better shape up, or here we come.”