Posted on 08/27/2003 3:04:44 PM PDT by joobers
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Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2003 Legislator Tries to Censor Mel Gibson's 'The Passion'
New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind has planned a press conference Thursday to demand that 20th Century Fox not distribute Mel Gibson’s movie "The Passion,” says Catholic League For Religious and Civil Rights.
Hikind asserts that the film "resurrects the age-old canard of deicide” and "can incite anti-Semitic violence.”
Catholic League president William A. Donohue said today:
The furor over Mel Gibson’s film has now reached a fever pitch. Assemblyman Hikind’s response is an example of how reaction to "The Passion" has spilled into hysteria.
Assemblyman Hikind has alleged that the movie implicates all Jews in the crucifixion, a common misconception of those who haven’t seen the movie. In fact, absolutely nothing in the film is inconsistent with Nostra Aetate, which repudiated the idea of collective guilt of the Jewish people for Jesus’ death.
The contention that the film ‘will spur anti-Semitic fervor’ is nonsense. Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, after seeing the film, commented, ‘You can quote me — Mel Gibson’s 'The Passion' is not anti-Semitic. I did not see any anti-Semitism in it.’
If the Catholic League for one moment thought this would inspire anti-Semitism, it would condemn the movie. Indeed, just last year, the league joined with Dov Hikind and other Jews in calling for a boycott of New York’s Jewish Museum, which exhibited art that trivialized the Holocaust.
Having seen the movie twice, I agree with the hundreds of Catholics, Protestants, and Jews who have now seen ‘The Passion.’ It is near unanimous: this movie will not foment anti-Semitism. Any such blind charges are vacuous.
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They are working to sue Mel for violating the constitutionally implied right not to be offended by anything remotely suggests the possibility that a just God exists.
For some time now, laws, morals, and arguably the Constitution itself has been rendered meaningless by court decisions from all levels. Most business, gov't, and educational leaders couldn't care less, so it just goes on and on.
Sincerely,
Mel Gibson.
Yes I understand that, my question is, when is someone, and I hate to bring up this vision again, but someone going to stand at the door ala George Wallace, and demand what law they are enforcing. Courts cannot make law. Judges cannot make law. What the hell has been going on. AND, just what the hell is separation of church and state? What does it mean? What LAW is it based upon?
Yes, it's time someone stood up in public and demanded the courts answer for their deeds. Surprised a 'George Wallace' scenerio hasn't happened yet.
I'll take all my family and friends to see it.
I'll see it at least 5 times.
I'll buy the DVD.
This is an opportunity for all of us who love Jesus (Catholic and Protestant) to demonstrate that no greater story was ever told.
You know, that is another pet peeve of mine. I don't believe that the amendment meant that the feds could not "establish" a religion. It meant that they could not make a law that prohibibited the establishment of one in the states. You must remember that a number of the colonies had "official" religious establishments at the time. The amendmendment, to me at least, meant that the feds could not do anything to prohibit that. Now, I know, the years have gone by and now we have judicial rulings and all of that, but, but, that is NOT what the founders meant about an "establishment of religion". It is simply not. And that damn letter that Jefferson wrote to the Baptists nonwithwtanding, there is no such thing as a separation of chruch and state in the U.S. Constitution. There just is not. It is an invention. It is a mirage. But it sure has wrecked havoc on the laws of the U.S. or should I say the mindset of the U.S. as there is no law that "establishes" a separation of church and state.
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