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September 27, 2007
The Last Supper, San Francisco Style
The organizers of the Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco’s largest taxpayer-supported outdoor gay orgy added a new twist to this year’s debauchery: blasphemy. While the annual event usually garners little attention outside the Sodom and Gomorrah of the West Coast, the poster advertising the 2007 homosexapalooza raised the ire of Christians and social conservatives.
The poster recreated Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper”, a world-renowned depiction of Jesus Christ and His disciples on the eve of the crucifixion, a moment sacred to Christians around the globe. Half-naked sadomasochists along with the obligatory drag queen replaced Christ and His disciples at the table and an assortment of sex toys, including a clenched fist, took the place of the bread and wine, served according to Scripture to represent the body and blood of Christ.
Several groups, including Concerned Women for America (CWA) and the Catholic League protested the anti-Christian theme of the poster as well as the event it promoted. They called on the Miller Brewing Company, a chief sponsor of the Folsom Street Fair to withdraw its financial support of the sexfest and California politicians including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sens. Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to condemn the outrageous advertisement.
Matt Barber, CWA’s Policy Director for Cultural Issues stated, "Scripture says that God is not mocked, yet it doesn't stop people from trying. As evidenced by this latest stunt, open ridicule of Christianity is unfortunately very common within much of the homosexual community.”
Event organizers denied a motivation to offend Christians. Board President Andy Copper said, “There is no intention to be particularly pro-religion or anti-religion with this poster; the image is intended only to be reminiscent of the ‘Last Supper’ painting. It is a distinctive representation of diversity with women and men, people of all colors and sexual orientations.”
Copper revealed his anti-Christian animus at the end of his statement about the controversy saying, “I guess it wouldn’t be Folsom Street Fair without offending some extreme members of the global community, though.”
Herein lies the problem with those who represent themselves as the mainstream of gay “culture”. These radicals believe that their worldview, shared by only a tiny sliver of the population enjoys widespread support in American society. According to Copper, the “extreme members of the global community” are the 80% of Americans who identify themselves as Christians.
Christians cannot view the Folsom Street Fair poster and not be offended and sickened by its blatant mockery of Jesus Christ. The advertisement did not come from a heart that loves God, but one that hates the truth about sin and salvation that Jesus Christ represents. Barber correctly pointed out, "'Gay' activists disingenuously call Christians 'haters' and 'homophobes' for honoring the Bible, but then lash out in this hateful manner toward the very people they accuse.” My own experience with these people led me to conclude that while Christians profess to “love the sinner and hate the sin” the extremists of the Angry Gay Left “love the sin and hate the sinner.” Responsible gay leaders should speak out against the poster, but they will not, fearing the vicious attacks from the hatemongers of their own community.
Gay apologist Wayne Besen accused critics of wanting to “make gays look bad” and characterized those speaking out as “mean-spirited.” One only needs to view a few of the photographs of the event to realize that the participants in the Folsom Street Fair do far greater damage to their image in the eyes of mainstream America than any religious leader or conservative pundit ever could. Most people cannot conceive the depravity that occurs in the streets of San Francisco during this event. The widespread nudity might be the least of the offensive behavior when compared to the lewd sex acts that occur not only in public view, but also in front of an audience.
All of this takes place against the backdrop of the national debate about creating a new protected class of citizens based solely upon their sexual habits. Under the “hate crimes” bill currently moving through Congress along with employment “non-discrimination” legislation, critics of events like the Folsom Street Fair would be silenced. Perhaps religious leaders and social conservatives should be grateful to the creators of the poster for showing America what the gay agenda really means for society.
Posted by jeffgannon at September 27, 2007 09:31 AM
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