The article is a little jumbled, in that it tries to present Bush's anti-gay-marriage constitutional amendment proposal, and Mel Gibson's film, as two reflections of Christian homophobia. But in short, the position of the article is that the way Satan and Herod are portrayed in the film are meant to confirm the conception held by the intended audience (conservative Christians) of effeminacy as evil.
As I wrote earlier,
Gibson took poetic license with the way he depicted both Satan and Herod. His depiction veers close to being un-scriptural and, I do not think accidently, occurs at the expense of people who are GLBT. If anything, more people will leave the theater with anger towards gays and androgynes than they will with anger at the Jews. It is more homophobic than it is anti-Semitic.
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Date: 2004-03-13 03:45 pm (UTC)As I wrote earlier,
See my earlier post: http://www.livejournal.com/users/sophiaserpentia/360786.html