Right-Wing Catholics Throw Fit at Folsom Ad

The ad is a takeoff of Leonardo DaVinci’s infamous Last Supper, with an African American Jesus, and various apostles, male and female, in leather garb. A leather pride flag adorns the table where they sit.

A Miller statement, issued in response to the controversy, said that the company takes “exception to the poster that the organizing committee developed this year. We understand that some individuals may find the imagery offensive.”

Father Jonathan Morris, a Fox News analyst who is also a Catholic priest in Rome, said that the Folsom Street organizers are “trying to make a mockery of religion.”

That’s their right. It’s also the right of the League to object to the ad.

Objecting to things is nothing new for conservative people of faith. The Catholic Church has always objected to people mocking or taking issue with its party line. Throughout the ages, it has jailed scientists for writing that the Earth is round or that our planet revolves around the sun. It’s forced artists, such as DaVinci and Michelangelo, to paint things the way it wanted (including putting loin cloths on cherubs) and, since it was funding the art with its vast fortunes, it could easily get away with it.

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