This is where we're headed. The venom spewed against Gibson by Safire, Krauthammer and every writer for the New York Times is directed just as much against the Gospels, even though the writers are careful not to say it explicitly. It is only a matter of degree from what they're doing to Gibson, to demanding that any public recitation of the Gospels be prohibited, and then - that the New Testament be banned as "hate speech". There are efforts along those lines in some parts of Canada already, and a pastor in Scandanavia got into legal trouble for pointing out the Gospels' negative view toward homosexuality.
The agitation for that has already started. The academic Daniel Goldhagen ("Hitler's Willing Executioners") demands in his new book that the Catholic Church remove what he considers numerous anti-Semitic references from the New Testament. Furthermore, as we've seen from the controversy over Gibson's movie, a lot of biblical scholars completely agree--"there's always a danger of anti-Semitism when you read the Gospels literally" said the ad hoc committee of scholars who eviscerated Gibson's screenplay.