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> On Mar 31, 12:22 pm, The Pretzel <sal...@roldgold.net> wrote:
>> A Brick in the Wall wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > <lorad...@cs.com> wrote in message
>> >news:1175361003.391140.92560@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>> >> On Mar 31, 7:47 am, toastmil...@yahoo.com wrote:
>> >>> On Mar 31, 6:36 am, "Roger" <roge...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >>>> Chocolate Jesus exhibit cancelled
>> >>>> Saturday, 31 March 2007, 08:08 GMT 09:08 UK
>> >>>> A New York art gallery has decided to cancel an exhibit of a
>> >>>> chocolate
>> >>>> sculpture of Jesus Christ after protests by a US Catholic group.
>> >>>> The six-foot (1.8m) sculpture, entitled "My Sweet Lord", depicts a
>> >>>> naked
>> >>>> Jesus Christ with his arms outspread.
>> >>>> The sculpture, by artist Cosimo Cavallaro, was to have been
>> >>>> displayed
>> >>>> from
>> >>>> Monday at Manhattan's Lab Gallery.
>> >>>> The timing, over Easter Holy Week - the most important part of the
>> >>>> Christian
>> >>>> year - provoked an outcry.
>> >>>> The Roger Smith Hotel housing the Lab gallery decided to cancel the
>> >>>> exhibition after the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights
>> >>>> called
>> >>>> for a boycott.
>> >>>> 'Strong-arming'
>> >>>> "We're delighted with the outcome," said Kiera McCaffrey,
>> >>>> spokeswoman
>> >>>> for
>> >>>> the League.
>> >>>> Ms McCaffrey had called the exhibit "an assault on Christians".
>> >>>> "They would never dare do something similar with a chocolate statue
>> >>>> of
>> >>>> the
>> >>>> Prophet Mohammed naked with his genitals exposed during Ramadan."
>> >>>> The Lab gallery's artistic director, Matt Semler, has offered his
>> >>>> resignation, saying the decision to cancel the exhibition was a
>> >>>> result
>> >>>> of
>> >>>> "strong-arming from people who haven't seen the show, seen what
>> >>>> we're
>> >>>> doing.
>> >>>> "They jumped to conclusions completely contrary to our intentions,"
>> >>>> he
>> >>>> said.
>> >>>> Mr Semler said the timing of the exhibition - when Christians mark
>> >>>> the
>> >>>> crucifixion and resurrection of Christ - was coincidental.
>> >>>> Canadian-born Mr Cavallaro is known for using food ingredients in
>> >>>> his
>> >>>> art,
>> >>>> on one occasion painting a hotel room in mozzarella cheese.
>> >>>> He used 200 pounds (90 kg) of chocolate to make the sculpture which,
>> >>>> unusually, depicts Jesus without a loincloth. It showed him
>> >>>> suspended
>> >>>> in air
>> >>>> with his arms spread wide, as if crucified.
>> >>>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6513155.stm
>> >>> Are you saying the people who were offended should not have been
>> >>> allowed to protest? How very liberal of you
>> >> They are like that.. pose themselves as freedom loving.. but when it
>> >> comes down to it.. just grubby little trotskyists in drag burning
>> >> Christian churches.
>>
>> > Can either of you show where Roger posted that the protests should not
>> > allowed?
>> > Lies -- it's all you have now. Sleep well with them.
>>
>> Shows you just how stupid the Rightard-bent Catholics are.
>>
>> If the idiots would just stop and think about it, receiving communion
>> using pieces of a chocolate Jesus would not only be scrumptious, it
>> would increase recruitment in the Catholic church. It beats the **** out
>> of stale wafers. It could also beat the **** out of chocolate bunny
>> sales on Easter.- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> Up yours, pretzal.
Pretzel Jesus!
Brilliant!
news:1175407697.597730.308670@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> On Mar 31, 12:22 pm, The Pretzel <sal...@roldgold.net> wrote:
>> A Brick in the Wall wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > <lorad...@cs.com> wrote in message
>> >news:1175361003.391140.92560@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>> >> On Mar 31, 7:47 am, toastmil...@yahoo.com wrote:
>> >>> On Mar 31, 6:36 am, "Roger" <roge...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >>>> Chocolate Jesus exhibit cancelled
>> >>>> Saturday, 31 March 2007, 08:08 GMT 09:08 UK
>> >>>> A New York art gallery has decided to cancel an exhibit of a
>> >>>> chocolate
>> >>>> sculpture of Jesus Christ after protests by a US Catholic group.
>> >>>> The six-foot (1.8m) sculpture, entitled "My Sweet Lord", depicts a
>> >>>> naked
>> >>>> Jesus Christ with his arms outspread.
>> >>>> The sculpture, by artist Cosimo Cavallaro, was to have been
>> >>>> displayed
>> >>>> from
>> >>>> Monday at Manhattan's Lab Gallery.
>> >>>> The timing, over Easter Holy Week - the most important part of the
>> >>>> Christian
>> >>>> year - provoked an outcry.
>> >>>> The Roger Smith Hotel housing the Lab gallery decided to cancel the
>> >>>> exhibition after the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights
>> >>>> called
>> >>>> for a boycott.
>> >>>> 'Strong-arming'
>> >>>> "We're delighted with the outcome," said Kiera McCaffrey,
>> >>>> spokeswoman
>> >>>> for
>> >>>> the League.
>> >>>> Ms McCaffrey had called the exhibit "an assault on Christians".
>> >>>> "They would never dare do something similar with a chocolate statue
>> >>>> of
>> >>>> the
>> >>>> Prophet Mohammed naked with his genitals exposed during Ramadan."
>> >>>> The Lab gallery's artistic director, Matt Semler, has offered his
>> >>>> resignation, saying the decision to cancel the exhibition was a
>> >>>> result
>> >>>> of
>> >>>> "strong-arming from people who haven't seen the show, seen what
>> >>>> we're
>> >>>> doing.
>> >>>> "They jumped to conclusions completely contrary to our intentions,"
>> >>>> he
>> >>>> said.
>> >>>> Mr Semler said the timing of the exhibition - when Christians mark
>> >>>> the
>> >>>> crucifixion and resurrection of Christ - was coincidental.
>> >>>> Canadian-born Mr Cavallaro is known for using food ingredients in
>> >>>> his
>> >>>> art,
>> >>>> on one occasion painting a hotel room in mozzarella cheese.
>> >>>> He used 200 pounds (90 kg) of chocolate to make the sculpture which,
>> >>>> unusually, depicts Jesus without a loincloth. It showed him
>> >>>> suspended
>> >>>> in air
>> >>>> with his arms spread wide, as if crucified.
>> >>>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6513155.stm
>> >>> Are you saying the people who were offended should not have been
>> >>> allowed to protest? How very liberal of you
>> >> They are like that.. pose themselves as freedom loving.. but when it
>> >> comes down to it.. just grubby little trotskyists in drag burning
>> >> Christian churches.
>>
>> > Can either of you show where Roger posted that the protests should not
>> > allowed?
>> > Lies -- it's all you have now. Sleep well with them.
>>
>> Shows you just how stupid the Rightard-bent Catholics are.
>>
>> If the idiots would just stop and think about it, receiving communion
>> using pieces of a chocolate Jesus would not only be scrumptious, it
>> would increase recruitment in the Catholic church. It beats the **** out
>> of stale wafers. It could also beat the **** out of chocolate bunny
>> sales on Easter.- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> Up yours, pretzal.
Pretzel Jesus!
Brilliant!