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This city played host Sunday to a Christmas celebration for its gay community that featured a Nativity tableau with a man in drag playing the part of Mary.
Frank van Dalen, chairman of the advocacy group Pro Gay that organized the event, known as Pink Christmas, said that it sought to raise Amsterdam’s profile as a capital for gays.
Van Dalen said the event cost €15,000, or $20,800, and that it had been sponsored by the City Council. He added that he hoped it would become a regular attraction, as is the gay pride parade that brings tens of thousands of visitors to Amsterdam each year…
A man who performs under the name of Wendy Mills wore a blonde wig and high-heel black boots Sunday to play the part of Mary, while the actor playing Joseph wore black leather trunks and a silver shawl. The five-person manger scene was staged in the courtyard of a nightclub and visitors were invited to be photographed with the group.
Since Christmas is in essence a commercial holiday, it makes great sense for commercial centers to build upon that premise and expand the market.
Just a shame everyone gets to have fun except the folks who invented the holiday.
Beards never looked so gay.
“Since Christmas is a commercial holiday for some, it makes great sense for commercial centers to build upon that premise and expand the market.”
“for some”, not all. Fixed it for you.
Nobody, ask about the donkey.
People from holland (Dutch) are funny, they love to hammer taboo’s and are very tolerant. True christians need tolerance above all else if they’re going to love their neighbours these days. Sacred is a reason to worship, not a reason to hate.
I’m sure Jesus is up in heaven thinking, “Jesus H. Christ!” Also, is the guy on the left holding a butt plug?
#6. “is the guy on the left holding a butt plug?”. I wondered where that went.
I’ve long been of the opinion that people would be more generally accepting of gays if they didn’t always seem to go out of their way to make spectacles of themselves.
Gays are hypocrites, they can’t stand to be offended but go out of their way to offend.
If they were really interested in pushing the envelope they’d parade around as Mohammad riding a burro (or whatever) to Heaven during an Islamic holy day. People like these specifically choose to be ‘controversial’ by making fun of/impugning Christian icons and holidays because it’s safe to do in this culture. This is just more of the same.
#8. I’m with Sea Lawyer. This is just tasteless, nothing else, not interesting, funny, or even controversial. Just Sad.
“Just a shame everyone gets to have fun except the folks who invented the holiday.”
Which ones were those then? There are more than 13 different religions that all predate the judeo-christian thing, each with pretty much the same virgin birth bullshit as the story of xmas we’ve been force fed since birth.
http://tinyurl.com/axxyf6
If you listen carefully, you can hear the sound of heads exploding at the Westboro Baptist Church
… and Bill O’Reilly celebrating that he has more fodder for his bogus “war” on Christmas.
There are a lot of ways to commit blasphemy without trying real hard.
These people seem to have gone out of their way to do it.
Maybe someone should tell them what exactly what blasphemy is, how dangerous it is, and how much God detests it.
Just in case their are any questions…
Blasphemy,
1 a: The act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God.
b: The act of claiming the attributes of deity.
2: Irreverence toward something considered sacred or inviolable.
#14 God is dead. Has been so for awhile now.
Nativity scene in drag with butt plugs is dandy, but Rick Warren doing an invocation at Obama’s inauguration is offensive.
Well, “Mary” won’t be breast feeding and they’ll have to get the formula from China with all the shit in it. “Mom” is probably a meth head or crack whore so with all of that working against him, baby Jebus won’t live long enough to get nailed up.
Merry Xmas everybody! http://tinyurl.com/8n97sl
#14, PcMaster,
Blasphemy is just another way of justifying getting your shorts in a knot because someone has the temerity to point out your “god” is really just a figment of your imagination.
The whole “nativity scene” is bullcrap, twisted to suit the times.
Fact is, there were very few inns, as we know them, 2000 years ago. Many people would, for some money, allow travelers to stay in their homes. BUT, as most of the country homes kept their animals on the first floor and slept on the second, travelers usually bunked down with the animals if there was no room upstairs. That some travelers in this story had to share quarters with a few donkeys and cows is nothing out of the ordinary.
Mary would have known for some time, as would Joseph, that she was in labor. First births are rarely ever quick and without warning. Especially with young mothers. Being her first and so young, she would almost certainly be helped by the house matron if a mid-wife was unavailable. The birth would have been done over straw as it is easier to clean up.
In that time period, women (girls really) often became pregnant from rape including paternal. The then pregnant girl would be sold to a wealthy, older man as a wife. The pregnancy would be passed off as “gee, we didn’t know, it must be divine”. It is surmised that this is what happened to Mary.
That later other travelers showed up would not be unusual. That they shared useless gifts with a young mother would also be standard. That they too were put up in the stable is not impossible. That they were Kings is in line with “King” being such a popular Jewish name. That the gifts were later exaggerated into fine, expensive gifts is in keeping with most stories in the Bible.
#19–Fusion==way to dish it out!!!
Should show a few hypocrits the true path.
Blasphemy… heh. We’re all blaspheming against someone else’s god. And they’re blaspheming against our god. Big deal.
Well, actually, it does become a big deal if there’s government-enforced religion, and people are put in prison or worse for blasphemy against the wrong god.
#20 – Bobo
Jesus.
Billy bob said: “Nativity scene in drag with butt plugs is dandy, but Rick Warren doing an invocation at Obama’s inauguration is offensive.”
Who’s inauguration is it? Obama’s
Who made the decision on Rev. Warren? Obama
Who campaigned on “CHANGE”? Obama
You wanted change, you voted for change, your getting change!!
NOW SHUT-UP AND LEARN TO DEAL WITH IT!!
This is why Im glad warren got the invocation gig. ‘More Saddleback and less Brokeback”!
I love #19: Nothing funnier than a dumbass, godless, asshat, liberal pontificating on theology. Im sure Mr Fusion knows more about the care and cleaning of an ass plug than he does about christianity. I cant wait to hear more. Now we know Mr Fusion’s real identity. He’s a professor of theology at Cal.
#25 – Fedup
Fedup==way to dish it out!!!
Should show a few hypocrits the true path.
Tee hee!
Christmas as we are told to celebrate it is an invention of the movie industry during the forties. The Jews in the movie business helping out the Jews in the store business.
The Yuletide season was celebrated by the Nordics long before there was a Jesus. Just another pagan Nordic celebration taken over and having the Jesus stuff hung to it. Same as Aster.
Nothing wrong with fagots and butt plugs if they want to enjoy the season in their own way. It’s all a fantasy anyway. Dickens story aside, it was illegal to celebrate Christmas in old England where it was celebrated as a period of lewd drunkenness
#26–Mustard.
Jeebesus!!!
#25–F&ckUP==Fusion immediately dismisses theology and gives a lesson in sociology/history. You should at least criticize him for what he actually does rather than your imaginary crimes===although, thats not to be expected with those who get upset by bad theology in the first place is it?
Virgin Birth??? Hah, hah, hahahahaha. Ya, sure. What about blasphemy of common sense===don’t wish to be redundant even regarding religion, so nevermind.
#29 – Bobo
>>Jeebesus!!!
Get the name of your Lord right, Blasphemer. It’s “Jeebus”.
#31–Mustard===hahahaha. Hey!! Let me reject my own gods rather than have YOU force your idiotic fantasy on me or anyone else. Jeebesus, son of god, born of a virgin, to releave the sins even of those not yet born, part of the trinity, yada, yada, yada. Can you recognize gibberish when its your own?
Every time the subject of the blog comes close to religion the atheists have to sound off! Trying to show off their intellectual prowess by explaining how silly organized religion is. Up to there ok, but to deny the exisistence of god… what kind of a genius does it take to explain why something they don’t understand doesn’t exsist.
#33 – Can you deny the existence of the tooth fairy? Santa Claus? Easter Bunny? I respect your right to believe in your imaginary friend. My personal belief is that religion was organized just to make me laugh.