"Spouting obscenities and vile anti-Semitism makes one human"....
By no means. But getting drunk, acting OUT OF CHARACTER, saying and doing stupid things, most certainly is. He already appears to have stood up, apologized, and taken responsibility for the consequences of his having chosen to drink. Leave him alone. I suspect Old Nick has his talons into him pretty tight after The Passion. Pray for him.
He said something to cover his ass. Words mean very little when you've driven 40 miles over the speed limit, jeopardized lives by driving drunk, revealed a strain of anti-semitism that many of us were afraid was there but were hoping wasn't, and insulted law enforcement officers who were trying to protect him from himself.
He should do what Eisenhower made George Patton do after he slapped a soldier for complaining of battle fatigue:
Gibson should apologize to every member of the LA Sheriff's Department individually and personally, he should publicly disavow each component of his father's anti-semitism, and he should apologize, publicly and personally, to a representative group of Jewish leaders and Shoah survivors.
He should also make some large donations to designated Jewish causes that fight anti-semitism, and to a law enforcement charity designated by the LA Sheriffs' Department.
I will also wager that his wife has been humiliated by this, but what he has to do to resolve that is up to her.
I am not bothering Mel nor do I have any way to bother Mel. But I will comment on what he said and did. And I will not pray for him. I can only pray for a finite number of people and things, and someone who trashes my family, both my forbears who died because of people like him and my precious children, goes to the end of any prayer list I could ever conceive of.