'Jesus with erection' ignites outrage (Oregon student newspaper response to Muhammad cartoons)

WorldNetDaily ^ | 4/26/06 | WorldNetDaily

[wagglebee]

 

Cover of the Insurgent (image altered for propriety).

A Catholic activist organization has written to Oregon's governor and state lawmakers to protest a University of Oregon student newspaper for having published cartoons showing Jesus Christ naked and with an erection.

In its March edition, the Insurgent, an "alternative" student paper on the Eugene, Ore., campus printed 12 hand-drawn cartoons of Jesus as a response to rival paper the Commentator having published the controversial cartoons of Muhammad originally published in Europe that sparked Muslim riots worldwide. The Insurgent claimed it published the drawings to "provoke dialogue."

William Donohue, president of the Catholic League, says the university's president, John Frohnmayer, has been unresponsive to complaints about the drawings, so he has written to the governor, every state legislators and the chancellor of the Oregon University System, among others.

Drawing featured inside paper spanning two pages (image altered for propriety).

"The March edition of the Insurgent … was one of the most obscene assaults on Christianity I have ever seen," Donohue said in a statement. "To make sure that the persons I wrote to understand how vile this attack was, I sent a photocopy of the two most offensive graphics: one was a depiction of a naked Jesus on the cross with an erection; the other, titled 'Resurrection,' showed a naked Jesus kissing another naked man, both sporting erections."

Donohue also says there were other depictions of Jesus on the cross that were "so gratuitously offensive that only the most depraved would defend them." He also noted the paper published two commentaries attacking Catholicism.

"That all of this appeared in a student newspaper, during Lent, on the campus of a state institution, makes one wonder what is going on at the University of Oregon," added Donohue.

While not describing the more sexual drawings, the main student newspaper at the university, the Oregon Daily Emerald, also criticized the Insurgent.

"The Insurgent editorial indicates a desire to show Americans why the original cartoons were so offensive to the Muslim world," wrote the editor of the Emerald. "According to the editorial, 'What is "not a big deal" in the US (sic) is apparently a humongous big deal to others. Why should we assume it would not be?'

"However, printing home-grown cartoons depicting Jesus on a cross/pogo stick or Jesus on a cross/hangliding apparatus are not inflammatory in the same manner as the anti-Islam cartoons, and therefore fail to produce the intended empathy from Christians to Muslims."

Added the paper: "Unlike the Danish cartoons, the Insurgent drawings seem intended to simply incite controversy for controversy's sake rather than making specific social commentaries."

Calls to the Insurgent and Frohnmayer's office were not returned by press time.

[Stepan12]

Why does this bother you so much? No one's being hurt by it. The whole purpose of it is to get a reaction. If you get mad, that means it had the desired effect on you.

Part of the problem is that the famous cartoon of Mohammed with a bomb headress is an interesting commentary considering what the religion of peace is doing these days. These Jesus cartoons are merely gratuitous and show a lack of comprehension by the artist(s) over the Danish cartoon controversy.

These Jesus cartoons were done in response to another paper courageously reprinting the Danish cartoons.

[usmcobra]

That's no way to his mrs.

[Michael Goldsberry]

Why does this bother you so much?

I once knew a wonderful woman from India who told me that the worst possible insult there is: "Fn(k your GOD!"

Same thing here, it seems.

We'll all see who's right.

[caisson71]

Just think of it, I spent good money to educate two daughters at that liberal cesspool. Thank goodness it was when an education at U of O meant something.

[wildwood]

As sickening and offensive as these cartoons are, there is still no concern that Christians are going to riot.

the other thing is that Christians are confident enough in their faith to know that Christ would have had no part of something like these drawings.

otoh, how do you defend a "faith" that murders, enslaves and tortures?

though the drawings are offensive, they have nothing to do with Christ and everything to do with the sick minds that conceived them in the first place.

[Doohickey]

Outrage? Nah. I find the penis fixation to be disturbing though.

[maine-iac7]

yep - that's equivalent to having a bomb for a turban

regardless of who it is - there are restrictions on showing ANY male full frontal nude - in publications.

[tophat9000]

Jesus with erection' ignites outrage (Oregon student newspaper response to Muhammad cartoons)

Well I guess it begs the question for the publisher in comparison to publishing a Muhammad cartoon

Wood Jesus kill them

[Waryone]

"Actually He can defend Himself quite well. He asked that my defense of Him is to love my enemies & forgive others. And the secret is I can't do it, so He does it thru me!"

Amen and thank you for the reminder.

[gathersnomoss]

I will spit on the next bowl of curry that I see. I will avoid driving East tomorrow.

[PISANO]

A "TURBIN BOMB Headress" for Mohammed ignites a world wide riotous uprisings calling for the beheading of the cartoonist and all Christians.

A "Naked Jesus on the cross" [bad enough] BUT.... with an erection [simply sacraligious] and what happens??

Nothing but a few Catholic league gentlemen begging that the exhibit be removed.

The religion of PEACE is which religion again?

[Michael Goldsberry]

The erection implies that Christ somehow enjoyed being put to death to save the rest of us the same fate.

*Blamo!*

You bet the cartoonist hit nerve!

May Allah and his Satanic follower Mohamed rot in Hell!

[teawithmisswilliams]

LOL!

These moronic adolescents should be asked if they have the guts to print something similar about Mohammed. Or are they the preening hypocrites we take them for?

[jcs1744]

Fine, whatever. As a lapsed Catholic, it's insulting, but I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. I wasn't the person who drew it. I'm not going to break windows or burn embassies. In fact, I think I'll stop this post and continue surfing freep.

Allah Akbar!

[jcs1744]

Fine, whatever. As a lapsed Catholic, it's insulting, but I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. I wasn't the person who drew it. I'm not going to break windows or burn embassies. In fact, I think I'll stop this post and continue surfing freep.

Allah Akbar!

[muir_redwoods]

Let them draw. I'm not the one who one day has to face his Maker with this on my resume.

What do they want? Riots in the street? That's for children and muslims. Or am I being redundant.

[Mr. Buzzcut]

The Danish cartoons were based on reality: Mohammed was a warmonger.

No evidence exists that Jesus was a pervert.

These kids are dopes.

[usmcobra]

They are preening hypocrites.

I visited their site, it's everything one could expect from a bunch of wannabee commie hippy types smoking left handed cigarettes and looking at child porn.

[Serb5150]

Excellent idea!