According to this article from Cybercast News Service (CNS News), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked about the poster for the Folsom Street Fair (it depicts the Last Supper with men in S&M outfits replacing Christ and the apostles and sex toys replacing the Eucharistic) she responded as follows. Her response, and the full question asked by the CNS resporter, is below:CNSNews.com: "I'd like to get local for a second and talk about what's going on in San Francisco. Your spokesman told the Bay Area Reporter that the Folsom Street Fair advertisement mocking the last supper would not harm Christianity. I'm wondering if you find the advertisement personally offensive."
"And as a follow up, the city's Grants for the Arts program, funded by the city's hotel tax, subsidizes the fair. Do you think that it's fair to tax everyone who visits San Francisco and stays in a hotel to support the fair?"
Pelosi: "Well that's not really a local question. That's a constitutional question. That's a religious question. That's as big a global question as you can ask. I'm a big believer in First Amendment and therefore, as I said in my statement, I do not believe that Christianity has been harmed by the Folsom Street Fair advertising."
She doesn't answer the question - it was a simple question: Do you, Nancy Pelosi (alleged Catholic), find the depiction of your Lord's Last Supper as some sort of S&M barbarity to be offensive?
Is she not allowed to be offended by anything any gay group chooses to do? I guess the better question would be: "is there anything a gay group can do which you would call offensive?". What are these people afraid of? For the Pelosis out there, these sorts of things are either offensive, or they're not - I'm all in favor of free speech; and I'll exercise my free speech by saying the Folsom Street Fair advertisement is offensive. Does this mean I hate gay people? Does this mean I think Christianity has been harmed?
The answer to both questions is, "no". As for hating gay people, I can't imagine how any would think that taking exception to something as over-the-top as that is being bigoted. As for Christianity - we're assured that the gates of Hell will not prevail against it, so an add for the Folsom Street Fair doesn't stand a chance. But it is offensive. Furthermore, as a matter of priciple I object to taxpayer dollars going to such a display.
Rank, nauseating fear - that is what we see here. Pelosi is just afraid, and so dodges the question. This is the Speaker of the House of Representatives...the leader of one of the two legislative houses of the most powerful nation in human history, and she's too chicken to even say what she thinks about a disgusting little advertisement.
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