The skit was very successful based on the applause. After that show, the three of us decided to get together and try and come up with some songs that we could all participate in.
I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.
Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.