San Fran Sacrilege *
If this poster were mocking Mohammad ...
... it would be an international incident. Muslim clerics would be issuing fatwas. Western leaders would be offering countless apologies. The media would be obsessively reporting every detail with a suitable air of shock and disgust.
But organizers of San Francisco's Folsom Street Fair -- "the world's largest leather event" -- have instead smartly chosen to mock Christ, depicting the Last Supper as some sort of kinky gay-sadomasochist fete complete with sex toys. And so press coverage -- and thus protest -- have been all but nonexistent. A Google News search finds only two news stories, one from a conservative news site, another from a Christian one. The MSM is seemingly not interested. Neither, apparently, are San Francisco city officials, or Miller beer, which is sponsoring the event.
Maybe the folks at Miller need to hear about this. Let's drop them a note.
* UPDATE: Miller Beer has pulled its logo -- but apparently not its money -- from the fair ad.
I've been wondering, over the past few days, over such perversions of religious imagery. On one hand, yes, you could say that they are "making fun" of the Last supper. On the other hand, isn't their choice basically affirming the enduring power and importance of the image?
I'm all for condemning the disrespect, but I see hope in it as well that someone involved or someone seeing it might be lead back to Truth.