emediawire.com is reporting in a press release that the DOJ has been petitioned to evaluate Mel Gibson's film, The Passion, for possible violations of the hate crime statutes. Ok, this is really a bit much. However, there is a statement in the release from a Catholic scholar that is, to put it bluntly, very blunt:
"Roman Catholic Biblical Scholar Father Gerald Caron, Professor of Biblical Studies at the Atlantic School of Theology in Halifax, calls Gibson's film 'anti-Jewish, theologically flawed and historically dubious.' "
Of course, we all know that Mel belongs to a sect that has had its differences with the Catholic hierarchy, but I thought the Vatican had given a half-hearted thumbs up to the film.
