[AlbionGirl]

..only to illustrate that I understand how Gibson sees his father, and why he did not publicly insult him by trashing him.

I couldn't agree more if I wanted to.

One more thing I'd like to add, if I might, is that a person such as Mel -in this instance- suffered slings and arrows on his father's behalf, rather than deliver to his father's detractors their pound of flesh.

I would do the same thing, I would prefer that people think I was nothing but a two-bit bigot than to publicly correct, or denounce my Father. I would take the slings and arrows, and they would be a badge of honor for me, because I acted not out of selfish motives but out of love for the man who gave me life, as flawed as he may be.

[Just mythoughts]

There is much irony in how Mel is being treated over his father, and what was demanded to be removed from the movie written in the Gospels.

Matthew 27:24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of the just Person: see ye to it."

25. Then answered all the People, and said,

"His blood be on us, and on our children."


This is what they demand Mel do to his father.

[Hamza01]

"I would prefer that people think I was nothing but a two-bit bigot than to publicly correct, or denounce my Father. I would take the slings and arrows, and they would be a badge of honor for me, because I acted not out of selfish motives but out of love for the man who gave me life, as flawed as he may be."

Very eloquently said. How dare they try to get Mel to denounce his father in public. He may as well denounce his faith. There is a real malevolence on the part of those who keep pushing this forward for no other reason than to bring Gibson and his family pain.

If Gibson had succumbed to the critics and publicly denounced his father, I don't think I could have had any respect for him as a man. But as you point out, the courage with which he has stood his ground in the face of this onslaught demonstrates his character.

But neither has he endorsed his father's rather kooky views on the Holocaust.