Mel's Early Day Antigay Meltdown

I lost all respect for Mel Gibson years ago - who I first had come to like in the 1981 movie Gallipoli which had definite homoerotic overtones (I found mark Lee the sexier of the two main characters) - after I discovered that he was a far right Tridentine rite Catholic which discovery was followed by his racist and anti-Jewish rants when he was picked up for DUI. The movie Passion of Christ, which was pornographic in its violence, solidified my view that Gibson was a nutcase and false Christian in my mind. I have made a point of NOT watching any movie featuring Gibson Now, Gibson - who while claiming to be a Bible following conservative Catholic divorced his first wife - has had another outburst that has exposed him both as a bogus Christian and as an utter, nasty bigot. The Advocate, among other publications, has stories that look at Gibson's increasingly racist and bigoted mindset and false Christianity. Like so many f the professional Christian set, Gibson again proves that those who talk the most about their Christianity and set themselves up as the moral critics of others are in fact the least Christian and the biggest hypocrites. Here are some highlights:
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Long before Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic, racist and violent rants, the actor made headlines — and enemies — with his antigay remarks to a Spanish newspaper in 1991.
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The latest shocking comments from Mel Gibson, in which he hurls racist, misogynistic, and anti-immigrant slurs at his ex-girlfriend, cap a career of tirades that includes a highly publicized homophobic rant and an anti-Semitic outburst.
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According to PopEater, long before Gibson could be heard on tape last week threatening Oksana Grigorieva, with whom he had a baby, he made homophobic remarks in 1991. Back then, American columnist Liz Smith reported on what the actor said to the Spanish newspaper El Pais:
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"They take it up the a**..this is only for taking a s***,” he said at the time. "With this look, who's going to think I'm gay? I don't lend myself to that type of confusion. Do I look like a homosexual? Do I talk like them? Do I move like them?"
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On Friday, Gibson was dropped by the William Morris-Endeavor agency after the audio tape of his latest rant was leaked.
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No doubt Gibson will be embraced by the Kool-Aid drinkers of the far right as some sort of martyr. As is all too typically the case, the professional Christians reject the Gospel message of Christ even as they pat themselves on the back for their religiosity.