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from: spartakus
date: 2007-03-30 19:38:00
subject: Re: ARTIST WANTS PUBLIC TO EAT JESUS FIGURE

From: spartakus{at}my-deja.com

"J Young"  wrote:

> http://catholicleague.org/07press_releases/quarter_1/070329_artist_wa...
>
> The Catholic League has learned that artist Cosimo Cavallaro has
> invited the public to show up at midnight on April 1 to take a bite
> of his 6-foot tall chocolate sculpture of a crucified Jesus with his
> genitals exposed; it is scheduled to be shown during Holy Week,
> from April 1 to April 7.
>
> Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented as follows:

     "Just imagine if a white guy is performing oral sex on
      a statue of Martin Luther King with an erection. Do you
      need to see it to know it's ugly?"

Cross-posted to alt.religion.christian.roman-catholic, because I'm curious
about how many Catholics feel that Bill Donohue speaks for them.  He is,
after all, the person our so-called "liberal media" has
designated as *the* spokesman for American Catholicism.  He's the "go-
to" Catholic in the public eye.  How comfortable are our Catholic
friends with this?

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