Hundreds gathered at Dolores Park to see who would be crowned Hunky Jesus 2011 at the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence 32nd Annual Easter Celebration. Jesus F’ing Christ (aided by a dummy and some pretty convincing pantomime) beat out the self-proclaimed The Hunky Jesus (the only contestant to get naked); Yoga Jesus; Fat, Drunk and Obviously Redneck Jesus; and dozens of others in various states of undress and repentance. Video to come!
One would think that tolerance would be a two way street. I don’t mock homosexuals and yet what I hold in highest esteem as sacred is mocked openly, they could show a little bit more class I think. Or stop preaching tolerance and equality.
@C Gibson:
(1) If you don’t want to be painted with the same brush as every “Christian” that has burned a cross on a black person’s lawn or held up signs and shouted disgusting things to protest at a US soldier’s funeral, you might also try to refrain from generalizing from the actions of one group of people, some of whom are gay, from being representative of all gay people.
(2) While the general point and the sentiments on lack of class or crassness are well taken, drawing a link to espousing values of tolerance and equality are erroneous. The event depicted, while surely irreverent and sardonic, neither visits harm/condemnation upon Christians, nor does it call for their unequal treatment under the law. At best, you could argue that tolerance should preclude mocking behavior (in that gay people would hope [straight] Christians would show tolerance by not making jokes in public based on gay stereotypes), yet even this misses the mark a bit: to treat religious iconography mockingly is to skewer the religion, but not necessarily its adherents.
To suppose that the only way to show tolerance and equality to adherents of a belief is to defer to the belief itself is faulty, because the beliefs are prescriptive and that would mean the only way to show tolerance and equality would be to essentially adopt all of the rules of the belief such that other adherents wouldn’t be offended. That is, it simply doesn’t make sense that the only way to show tolerance and equality to Christians is by only doing things that do not offend Christian belief because the only way to do that would be to become Christian. Really, showing tolerance and giving equality to adherents is just that, to let adherents believe as they will and not treat them differently, just as non-believers or gays exhort believers to allow them to believe what they will and not treat them differently under the law.
The Hunky Jesus contest is NOT about mocking anything. It is a celebration of humor, creativity, and sexuality that make up the religion of the Sisters and their followers. ANd along the way it raises a ton of money for some fine charities.