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You know something, I don’t know what to think of this whole thing. I want to say I truly believe his apology, but I don’t want it to seem like I’m just saying it because he is a Christian. I have read and heard his apology several times now and it seems that he truly is sorry. He states everything he did wrong, and states why it was wrong. He knows what he did. My feelings are that he has some problems whatever they are, obviously stemming from his fathers beliefs, but he really wants to change that, I find it hard to believe that he likes being that way. I read a interview with him in reader digest, yes readers digest what of it? It was right around the time passion came out and he was asked about his father and weather or not he believes the Holocaust really happened, His answer was something like, he loves his father, but his father has issues.
Anyway like I said I don’t know what to make of it right now.
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I really really liked Mel Gibson. I like him as an actor and it isn’t very often an actor or actress claims to be a conservative. Now this. It just fuels the stereotypes that liberals have of conservatives…intolerant, biggoted, etc.
My number one problem with him is he was driving drunk. He was doing 85 in a 35mph zone or something. He could easily have killed someone and that is unacceptable behavior and he needs to be punished like anyone else for that.
From a business perspective his words are definately something I would want to distance myself from. Disney, for example has every right to not release his new film because of what he said. I know I’d drop it like a hot potato if I were them.
The thing that really concerns me are his actions though. I found this article on the foxnews website. It references some things that were cut out of Reader’s Digest article by Peggy Noonan you were commenting on. Plus the church he is funding is a little troubling. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,184668,00.html
He has every right to fund the church and make the comments he has made, but I just can’t support anyone that uses that type of laguage against anyone based on their race, religion, or sexual orientation.
Comment by Chris August 3, 2006 @ 1:39 pmYou know what happens with alcohol.. brings out what you really think. “In vino veritas” as they say.
Comment by britgirl August 4, 2006 @ 2:33 amHmmm – while he may have apologised (as he should have) – it seems to me that Gibs on was just saying what he really thought. If I recall, the passion had anti-semetic undertones, and his dealings with the Jewish establishment over the whole thing wasn’t exactly paralleling his dealings with the ‘Christian Church’
Comment by Natalie Rae August 30, 2006 @ 3:40 am