The Last Temptation of Christ was a hardcore gay porn film...

[cthulu2016]

...according to some of the people in Richmond who camped out in front of the theater for a month protesting the film.

And since it was a XXX gay porn film, of course they would never watch such a thing... so none of them had seen it.



What happened was that somebody in Europe said something once, or was rumored to have said something, or some shit, about making a gay porn film life of Christ. That was cyber-cast to fundamentalist churches using the Internet of the era—the Xerox machine.

Look what they are doing to our Lord! We must stop this!

Then a while later Scorsese started making The Last Temptation of Christ. (A movie I love despite the fact that it is quite sincerely faithful accepts the divinity of Christ. That's a spoiler, but it's decades old.)

As VARIETY filled with stories about this controversial new Jesus movie a lot of folks were primed to oppose that gay porn film they had been warned about, and some folks thought that was the film and they probably believe it to this day.

Last Temptation would have been protested in any event, but the weird assumption of being a gay porn film helped keep a fire under the project.


Religious rabble-rousers like to tell people what is in movies they haven't seen, what is in books they haven't read, and what is happening on all the TV channels they have blocked.

[Rabid_Rabbit]

1. Perfect example

how disagreements should be handled. Protest all you want, make your opinion heard but don't kill anybody.

[renie408]

2. Why do people act as if anybody supports the killing of Ambassador Stevens?

Sorry, but NO SHIT you shouldn't kill people when you are pissed off about anything.

There is a difference between supporting killing and comprehending why it was done. Is anybody really SHOCKED that with Jones' movie as the tinder and the recent upheavals in both countries in which the US played a part, that some already pissed off fundies did what religious fundies do and killed people?

You can decry the movie and still support that piece of shit's right to make it. I support the right of white supremacists to be total ignorant stains on our society, that doesn't mean I support the things they do or the words they say. That movie should never have been made.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

4. The Ambassador was not killed --

because of the film content - it is now widely believed that it was a targeted assassination by a group such as Al Qaeda in Libya which used the cover of the film protests. No one was killed in Cairo, and the protest in Benghazi was aggressive but not deadly until the rockets were fired by the outside group.

So, the Libyans and Egyptians were doing just as you said -- protesting.

[backscatter712]

3. And the fundies screeching about LToC loved Jesus Chainsaw Massacre...

Aka Passion of the Christ.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. The same thing happened with the 1994 British movie "Priest"

As soon as word got out that one of the plots involved a gay Catholic priest, the nutjobs who think that God needs their protection, were all up in arms. Yeah, like there never was a gay Catholic priest. (My Episcopal parish includes two gay ex-Catholic priests that I know of.)

Anyway, the actual movie--although it does show the priest in bed with a guy he picked up in a bar-- was a thoughtful yet often humorous examination of living in a role with strict rules when the rules don't fit you, and also about several types of reconciliation. Every Episcopalian and liberal Catholic I know who has seen it thought it was fantastic. (The script is by Jimmy McGovern, who is responsible for two fine British TV series, Cracker and The Street, both of which explore social and ethical issues in an interesting and often entertaining way.)

[redqueen]

6. Careful, now...

[loli phabay]

8. i had that exact image in mind lol down with sort of thing

[ryan_cats]

7. Pure unadulterated B.S.

Pure unadulterated B.S.

I'm a Christian and I saw it at the Sacramento Tower theater. A friend took a bunch of pictures of the protesters, I wish I could post them.

I've only seen it once and I wasn't offended and it's well made, the plot was simple, as Jesus was dying on the cross, Satan tries to convince him that he's done enough and he can come down and it shows the future where has a wife. Then it goes back to the cross where Jesus resists the temptation and completes his job. That might be an over simplification but it is the gist of it.

We know from the NT Mathew 26:39 that Jesus asked his father, ""My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will." He knew what was coming and according to Mathew, he did ask if it was possible for all the following events to not happen. Since that WAS God's plan, he went through with it. I don't see people protesting Mathew?????

[xristoforos]

9. As a young child I picketed with my father at the Tower Theater in Sacramento...

Would you be willing to share some of the photos with me, for an article I am writing? There, was among others, one man with a crucifix and another with a huge sign which stated "Get the real story in the book" or something to that effect... I was there as a 9-year old, I believe, on various occasions.