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Posted on 09-28-2007 at 02:20pm
It’s Just A Picture, Part II
Filed Under (Photography, Opinion, Religion & Spirituality) by Katherine Coble on 09-28-2007

In the second story today to deal with people being upset about a fictional depiction of actual events, we go to Michael Not Mike who has an update on the latest farrago in the Church Vs. Homosexual Community battle.

n case you are not one of those whipped up about this event, it is an annual street fair that caters to a certain segment of the GLBT (this is one time all 4 letters are appropriate) community who enjoy certain sexual fetishes, especially BDSM and leather. … [The poster advertising the event is] obviously … meant to bear a striking resemblance to Leonardo De Vinci’s Last Supper.

Matt Barber, policy director for cultural issues with CWA said his group wants California’s elected officials – including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer – to “publicly condemn this unprovoked attack against Christ and His followers.” How exactly is this an attack on Christ or his followers? While it is certainly a parody of a painting made 1500 years after the events it purports to depict, it in no way says anything negative about Jesus or Christians.

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Comments

Slartibartfast on 28 September, 2007 at 2:59 pm #

It’s almost as if these hype-sensitive ones skipped over whole parts of the New Testament, when Jesus gave his followers a pretty good idea of what to expect from the wider culture.

It’s like expressing outrage that the sky is blue.


dolphin on 28 September, 2007 at 3:07 pm #

This sorta thing is precisely why I objected so strongly to the Senate’s resolution condemning the MoveOn.org ad.

Since when is it condemnation of First Amendment protected activities an appropriate function of government (and of tax dollars)?


Katherine Coble on 28 September, 2007 at 3:24 pm #

This sorta thing is precisely why I objected so strongly to the Senate’s resolution condemning the MoveOn.org ad.

Oh hold on just a second.

Here’s where I admit that I have remained willfully, stubbornly ignorant of the MoveOn ad. When all that stuff happened I was sick as a turkey on December 1 and figured I had other things to worry about and I don’t care what MoveOn does or how outraged factions on the right get about what they do. It’s all bread and circuses in my opinion. And not my favourite kind of bread, either.

So I’m literally just now reading in your comment that the Senate actually took time (that I’m paying for) to interject itself in this tomfoolery?!?

And people wonder why I get so anti-government at times.

Honestly.