Snips from WP by Alan Cooperman:
Gibson's drunken remarks about "[expletive] Jews" being responsible for "all the wars in the world," which the actor made to a Los Angeles sheriff's deputy who pulled him over on July 28, were "hurtful and unfortunate", "reprehensible . . . shameful" and "cause for concern".
But has the actor-director's intemperate speech by the side of a highway prompted any prominent evangelical leader to voice second thoughts about the portrayal of Jews in Gibson's movie "The Passion of the Christ"?
"Not as far as I know," said Haggard, who is president of the National Association of Evangelicals and senior pastor of the 14,000-member New Life Church in Colorado Springs.
"This incident is not relevant in any way to 'The Passion of the Christ,' which is one of the finest films of this era," Dobson said in a statement issued Thursday by his organization, Focus on the Family.
"Obviously his recent comments were, to say the least, reprehensible and, as he said himself, shameful. That doesn't change my view of the film or make me believe that the film was anti-Semitic," Merritt [pastor of Cross Pointe Church near Atlanta and a former president of the 16-million-member Southern Baptist Convention]said. "I don't believe there was any subliminal message by Mel Gibson that had any kind of anti-Semitic undertone to it at all."
Before "The Passion" came out in 2004, Gibson screened it privately for select audiences, including megachurch pastors. Many members of the clergy responded enthusiastically, urging their congregations to see it and rejecting the contention of some Jewish and Roman Catholic commentators that the film perpetuated the anti-Semitic message delivered by Passion plays through the ages: that the Jews killed Jesus.
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