Posted on 12/12/2008 10:02:26 AM PST by Joiseydude
Playboy has got into the Christmas spirit — by putting the Virgin Mary nude on its Mexican cover.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Didn’t you post this already? Was it pulled?
Well, 100 years ago they were killing Catholic priests and nuns...
Not good.
Like school on a Saturday.
No class.
Oh, this won’t be controversial at all.
My God in Heaven, this is a blasphemy if ever there was one. God help us. On the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe this horror is published? God please strike these people. Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis!
That’s a Virgin Mary? How did they go back in time and take a picture of her? Frankly, that picture looks pretty tasteful, not much unlike classic paintings of Mary nursing.
Yes it was. I was told to repost it as an excerpt.
Again....family values being rammed down our throats!/sarc
Well, clearly the redneck ambassador has chimed in.
So where’s the bunny logo?
I suppose it was only a matter of time...
Please pull this picture. This is not right.
Not shocked it was done...kinda shocKed it was published by Hef instead of Flynt, though...
She is not nude.
Not on the cover.
Maybe inside the mag?
100 Years ago? Check your history. And it’s still illegal to be a Catholic priest there today, though they may not be enforcing it at the moment.
“She is not nude.”
She ain’t the Virgin Mary either.
You haven’t been here long enough to know that FR is known for pushing the envelope.
Get used to it. It’s one of the things that makes the site great.
Saw the original post, with picture (picture was more tasteful that SI Swimsuits - but calling it the Virgin Mary was tasteless), before it was pulled. I didn’t know silicone was available then...
That was low, even for a porn mag.
I don't believe it's the Virgin Mary. Heck, I'd be surprised if that girl's a virgin at all.
Fine.
This won’t take a moment, I’m posting up a nude picture of Sarah Palin. That pushing the envelope enough for you?
It was in the 1920s the Mexican Government was killing Nuns and Priests trying to impose a Marxist State. The Cristos War ended in a failure. Mexico IS Catholic and will always be.
The picture of the cover was directly related to the story.
Playboy isn’t a porn mag.
It is clear from Papal infallibility that Mary was perpetually clothed!
It is the fact that they would put her in the image of the Virgin Mary that is disrespectful. I can’t believe they would go that low.
I bet they would not have a chick pose as Fatima, the daughter of Mohammad.
The girl on the cover isn’t nude. It was covered up.
Madonna performing `Like A Virgin’ followed by headliner Pope Benedicts’s rendition of `Only a Gigolo’?
If they had any cajones they’d put Mohammed on a bearskin rug on their cover.
Never happen . . .
I don’t speak Spanish; therefore, I cannot translate the words on the cover referring to the model on the cover. Does the word “Virgin” appear there? Could it be the model’s name is “Maria” or “Mary” and that readers will “adore” her once they see the nekkid pictures inside? I can readily see that inferences might be drawn to the Virgin Mary but is this a case of jumping to conclusions? By the way, is the stained glass supposed to be symbolic of something as well?
For the record, I think this is in terribly bad taste and blasphemous if indeed it is a reference to the true Virgin Mary.
Look, friend... there are certain things OFF LIMITS. Lewd illustrations “suggestive” of the Virgin Mary IS one of that catagory. If it were not so, then the mod would not have pulled the image, per my request. Such provocation will start a war here on FR... I hope you realize that.
Playboy is trying to drum up some publicity for their magazine (which is not profitable- it's basically a loss-leader for Playboy's other ventures). Posting a fake picture of the Virgin Mary, in a Catholic country, is going to get a lot of responses. They're trying to get people's goat, and you fell for it.
Not a porn mag? Smut is smut as far as I am concerned.
Its headline reads in Spanish: "We adore you, Mary."
Pulled because original posting was not an excerpt.
“My God in Heaven, this is a blasphemy if ever there was one.”
I’m offended by this, but this is not blasphemy.
Blasphemy is an offense against God. The Virgin Mary is not God (or a diety of any type.) Blasphemy can only be commited against the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit.
It is interesting people call this blasphemy, yet you hear the name of Jesus Chist used as a swear word regularly in public and on television. That really is Blasphemy, but it has become so common people don’t even object to it anymore.
Promise? Sarah is one yummy mummy. You don't think she teeters around on those 4 inch heels has that sexy touseled hair to just look professional. She is working it. My wife is in PR and she knows what men like and works it also, does'nt mean she is a slut. That Virgin Mary though...way out of bounds, but Hefner is a godless pig anyway.
Come on y’all, if the word Playboy wasn’t behind it, it could be considered a nice, art photograph. It is less nudity than one would see in many images of the Virgin Mary that are considered classical deceptions.
Probably not even named Mary(Maria.) Playboy's journalistic integrity takes a big hit.
Are you sure about that? I thought Mexico was a Catholic country...
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Or maybe Miller beer.
Miller Brewing Apologizes for 'Last Supper' Poster (October 26, 2007)
Because once upon a time they airbrushed pubic hair?
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