Truemors
The Catholic League has gotten its knickers in a knot about the organizers of the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco. Apparently they don't like the fact that the last supper is being depicted as a place where you might find a giant fist shaped dildo.
Seated at and standing behind a long table, Last Supper-style, are a set of men and women in various stages of leather dress/undress, including a man wearing a black dog mask. Sex toys, including a big red fist, are strewn across the table.
The group is organizing a boycott of the product. But Jesus himself is famous for hanging out with sexual deviants and the outcasts of his time. Mary Magdelene is the most famous example:
Mary Magdalene is often referred to as a prostitute, but she was never called one in the New Testament.
Jeffrey Kripal, a religion scholar, wrote, "Migdal was a fishing town known, or so the legend goes, for its perhaps punning connection to hairdressers (medgaddlela) and women of questionable reputation. This is as close as we get to any clear evidence that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute". According to Kripal, the identification of Mary Magdalene as a prostitute also goes back to the above mentioned sermon by Pope Gregory.
In this sermon, Gregory identified Mary as peccatrix, a sinful woman, using her as a model for the repentant sinner, but he did not call her meretrix, a prostitute.
...This viewpoint is also espoused by much Western medieval Christian art. In many, if not most, medieval depictions, Mary Magdalene is shown as having long red hair, which she wears down over her shoulders. This was generally taken to be a sign of sexual impropriety in women at the time. The other women of the New Testament, in these same depictions, ordinarily have dark hair that is kept beneath a scarf. This disparity between depictions of women can be seen in works such as the Crucifixion paintings by the Meister des Marienlebens.
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