Junto Boys

On this Mel Gibson question, I can only think that the press is uncomfortable with an authentic movie based on the life of Christ. Gibson’s movie won’t let viewers forget the sacrifice. I have to think that this makes a lot of the right people uncomfortable. Frank Rich is dying to see the film so that he can blast it.

If "The Passion" is kosher, couldn't Mr. Gibson give Jews the same access to a Washington media screening, so they could see for themselves? Such inhospitality is not terribly Christian of him. One Jewish leader whose requests to see the film have been turned away is Abraham H. Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League. "If you tell everyone they won't see it until it's ready, O.K.," Mr. Foxman said in a phone interview from Jerusalem. "But what Gibson's done is preselect those who'll be his supporters. If the movie is a statement of love, as he says it is, why not show it to you or me?"

It’s obvious that Gibson hand-picked the viewers so that a good word-of-mouth would spread before the vultures got a hold of it. We have a word called anti-Semitism that describes anti-Jewish feelings. Why isn’t there a stinging word for when people are anti-Christian?