Why are Catholics so upset about the San Francisco Folsom Street Fair?

Question

An ad for the sex fair shows kinky people arranged similarly to the painting "The Last Supper". The Last Supper is a painting that was made 1400 years after the event it portrays. No one knows what any of the people really looked like or the table or the room itself, it's an artist's interpretation. Actually, the painting is almost certainly NOT like the actual event, why would they all be sitting on one side of a long table? To make a nice painting of course. Catholics don't worship graven images, right? So why do they care if the kinky ad has people arranged like the Last Supper?

Aren't they beiing a little over-sensitive?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298277,00.

People, it's a painting! Jesus didn't paint it, Leornado de Vinci did. Do you worship the painting? If Leornado de Vinci wasn't famous, would you care that his painting was mocked?

CatholicCrusader,
Good answer. It works for ANY question you can't answer. Do you use that answer in other situations in your life? When a cop asks you how much you've been drinking, do you use that answer?

Answer 1

meh. Its the nature of religion.

Answer 2

I'm upset by the ad. I have nothing agaist free speech, I have nothing against gays - what erks me is it was sponsored by the Miller Brewing Company. Anyone can say whatever they want, enact whatever (as long as no one gets hurt, etc...) - I am a Christian and my faith doesn't change because someone chooses to insult it. It's not just Catholicism that was affected by this - it was a slap to anyone who calls themself a Christian. It doesn't matter if it had been aimed at Muslims, Budhists, Hindus, anyone. It's just not proper.
It never should have aimed at a particular faith and done so with a Corporate sponsor. That's my 2 cents, for what it's worth. I am boycotting the Miller Brewing Company and spreading the word. It was a bad business decision on their part.

Answer 3

Weither or not the painting depicts the actual last supper is superfluous, the fact that the idea of the last supper could be hijacked by sexual devieants and held up as a sexual icon is enough to repel any Christian be they Catholic or Protestant.

Answer 4

It's like the Kathy Griffin Emmy speech...it was a joke that got taken so seriously they called it "hate speech".

People are very defensive of their beliefs because it's who they are. So, they think that people are attacking THEM.

Honestly, I think that some of them need to realize that the things they say and believe attack others (like the homosexuals in this controversy itself), and just let it go.

If they are strong enough in their religious beliefs and in themselves, they wouldn't get so upset about something this silly. It could be SO much worse, and it was not a personal attack.

Simply accept that this will happen, say you don't agree with it, and move on.

Answer 5

are you able to internet site your source on the "having intercourse interior the streets," and "in public on the Folsom highway honest..?" i became walking some nights in the past and observed 2 human beings having intercourse on the slide on the playground. It became late and no infants have been around yet nonetheless. Is that somebody *greater* suited because of the fact it became a heterosexual couple? No. they ought to be fined subsequently. it is not suitable to me while you're immediately or gay, you mustn't have interaction in those style of events publically. And in case you % to do it, you're able to be fined/arrested in accordance to the guidelines on your state. i ought to careless approximately them mimicking Leonardo's final Supper. this is a properly conventional portray. human beings imitate properly conventional artwork each and all the time. I as quickly as observed a ridicule up of Madonna and baby carried out with an orangutan. it rather is in basic terms insulting to those of you who choose to be indignant by way of each thing. edit: thank you for offering the hyperlink for me. i became curious what you have been refering to. It seems to me that it became a bondage journey that became good licenced by way of the city (you won't have the capacity to dam of streets otherwise). Given the point of bias in that article (bias isn't unavoidably undesirable, yet readers could observe that the author is pushing an schedule) it study to me that they have got been attempting to tutor BDSM = homosexuality and it rather is purely no longer the case. i won't have the capacity to think of it being as photograph because of the fact the object alleges and having households carry their infants there. even with the "simulated intercourse acts" being gay or hetero. It reads to me like the "intercourse acts" have been the spankings, and so on. that's under no circumstances my cup of tea, yet is a miles cry from human beings having intercourse in front of youngsters. in case you look at the information superhighway internet site for the Folsom highway honest, it aspects a lots diverse image. I even have generally discovered that the actuality might lie someplace interior the midsection.

Answer 6

i agree and when some ***** gets a beat down while getting verbally berated the rest of the homo comunity should'nt get so upset either, some body needs to come down to the fair with some bats and give those maggots some real s&m.
dont worry I'll report my self to the yahoo thought police!

Answer 7

Kimmy,
Proverbs 1:7 (one of my favorites)
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge,
but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Answer 8

we are upset, because the that sex fair Last Supper painting is blasphemous because it degrades and profanes or Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Answer 9

The gays, I think that they should take care of their pedophile problem first. Get the rafter out of your own eye first and then you can see clearly how to extract it from your brothers eye.

Answer 10

Because anti-religious bigotry is something to be upset about, just like any other bigotry.