Posted on 08/01/2006 8:14:03 AM PDT by monkapotamus
MEL SAYS SORRY TO THE JEWS
Tue Aug 01 2006 11:10:45 ET
August 2, 2006 -- There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of Anti-Semitic remark. I want to apologize specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested on a DUI charge.
I am a public person, and when I say something, either articulated and thought out, or blurted out in a moment of insanity, my words carry weight in the public arena. As a result, I must assume personal responsibility for my words and apologize directly to those who have been hurt and offended by those words.
The tenets of what I profess to believe necessitate that I exercise charity and tolerance as a way of life. Every human being is God’s child, and if I wish to honor my God I have to honor his children. But please know from my heart that I am not an anti-Semite. I am not a bigot. Hatred of any kind goes against my faith.
I’m not just asking for forgiveness. I would like to take it one step further, and meet with leaders in the Jewish community, with whom I can have a one on one discussion to discern the appropriate path for healing.
I have begun an ongoing program of recovery and what I am now realizing is that I cannot do it alone. I am in the process of understanding where those vicious words came from during that drunken display, and I am asking the Jewish community, whom I have personally offended, to help me on my journey through recovery. Again, I am reaching out to the Jewish community for its help. I know there will be many in that community who will want nothing to do with me, and that would be understandable. But I pray that that door is not forever closed.
This is not about a film. Nor is it about artistic license. This is about real life and recognizing the consequences hurtful words can have. It’s about existing in harmony in a world that seems to have gone mad.
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Nice try, Mel. You publicist wrote one helluva piece.
Okay, now I'm gonna cry. That takes a very big person.
OK Mel, scoot your bare bum over broken glass while saying...I Suck...I Suck..., then we'll talk money!
Let's see if his actions match his words. That will be the real litmus test.
God bless you, Mel! I'm praying for you.
Leftist losers in Hollywierd will still hate you, Mel.
Note to people in the public eye. This is the proper way to state an apology. I'm so sick of non-apology apologies that say "I'm sorry if anyone was offended by...".
wow....
I've always kind of thought that when you get loaded and spout off at the mouth, your deepest thoughts tend to come out.
Things you really believe, but don't say when sober, because you know it's just not right.
George Wallace did it. Mel Gibson can do it.
An apology is a start, but let's get down to brass tacks. What would it take?
A large donation to MDA (Jewish red cross)?
Apology to Bush and support of the US stance in the middle east?
Other thoughts?
The story of Larry Trapp, who didn't just say horrible things but actually did horrible things, might be enlightening for some of Gibson's critics.
They came from your daddy. You're going to have to deal with your daddy, Mel.
He did lie to you, after all.
How about we start with unconditional forgiveness?
There sure must be a lot of drunks running around this world!
John 3:16- God loves the person, not the sin!
My father always told me that you're more of a man when you can admit that you're wrong.
Jews only accept apologies from liberals like Jesse Jackson.
Sorry, Mel.
Let he who has never said something colossally stupid in public cast the first stone.
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