| Urgent Action Item!
TFP Announces Campaign
Against Brooklyn Museum
(February 26, 2001)
-- For the second time in recent years,
the Brooklyn Museum of Art is at the center of controversy
as Catholics protest against portrayals considered blasphemous.
In response, the American TFP and its affiliate campaign America
Needs Fatima announced today the launching of a massive grassroots
campaign of peaceful protest and reparation.
According to press reports, two blasphemous
portrayals of Jesus Christ are now on exhibit at The Brooklyn
Museum of Art - a photo of a nude woman standing in Jesus'
place at the Last Supper and another of a topless woman on
a cross. The special exhibit is showing until April 29 (Daily
News Express, 2/15/01; Reuters, 2/15/01).
"Our successful campaigns against
the play Corpus Christi and the movie Dogma
showed the entertainment establishment that Catholic will
stand up and peacefully yet loudly raise their voices against
blasphemy," says campaign director Robert E. Ritchie.
"We hope to send the same message to the Brooklyn Museum."
The grassroots campaign launched today
will begin with e-mail protests to The Brooklyn Museum of
Art. E-mails of encouragement will also be sent to Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani to thank him for working to establish decency standards
for museums receiving public money.
Similar messages will be sent later
through printed protest flyers that will be passed out nationwide.
Mr. Ritchie expects to send out hundreds of thousands of these
highly effective handouts over the next few weeks.
"If it is anything like our campaign
against the film Dogma, we will be seeing these flyers
popping up all over the country," Mr. Ritchie added.
For more information on how to participate
in this campaign
click here.
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