No, no, not Islam, Christianity: Bruce LaBruce isn’t that courageous.
From here:
Photographs of women posing sexily as nuns and in various stages of undress wearing Catholic symbols have sparked outrage and complaints of blasphemy from Catholic and conservative groups after they were displayed at an exhibition on Thursday.
‘Obscenity’, an exhibition of 50 photographs by the Canadian artist Bruce LaBruce, opened in Madrid, Spain, yesterday to much protest.
The audacious Mr. LaBruce is also writing a film script about a “beggar saint who performs miracles and heals people through sexual acts”. I’m sure the lady priests of Diocese of Niagara are eagerly awaiting its completion so they can perform it in Christ Church Cathedral.
Isn’t that pretty standard stuff, though, for those who think they are very avant garde, and hand-cuffed by left-wing notions (not to mention how such notions seize their brains too)? It is all in the name of trying to shock; trying to get one’s jollies by getting a rise out of other people. The best revenge is not to be shocked, but to yawn.
I can recall that for many years throughout the ’70s and’8os it was the fashionable thing to denigrate one’s childhood Catholic edudation in a parochial school, if you had had one. You had to talk about how mean and scary the nuns actually were, and all the “stupidity” you were made to listen to in Catechism classes, and….”oh, God!”, how riduculous and rights-trampling it all was. Then, you were in the cool Catholic-bashing crowd. You had credentials.
Hasn’t changed a great deal. I guess Bruce LaBruce never heard this “shocking” act of his has all been done before, and the cool folks are onto something else. Now I dare anyone to do it to Islam.
David, that last line, Ouch!
Carol,
I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your posts. Keep them coming sister!
Thank you, Jim. I just write from honest conviction, and I find it refreshing to be able to say what hasn’t even occurred to most Canadians since the pre-Trudeau years.
Shocking! Who does he think he is Madonna, or Leonard Alfred Schneider?