Graphic pix of sex-fest sent to Miller's hometown
Catholic League delivering photographs to 211 parishes, more
mailings planned
Posted: October 6, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Miller's banner over the Folson fair event (Photo by Americans for
Truth)
Graphic photographs of nearly nude homosexuals strutting the
streets of San Francisco under the sponsorship banner of Miller
Brewing Co. are being made available to tens of thousands of
Catholics in Milwaukee, the beer company's hometown.
The Catholic League said it is sending the photographs, many of
them also posted online under a parental warning about graphic
content, to apply pressure to the brewery to halt its sponsorship
of such events.
Last weekend's Folsom Street Fair featured blatant displays of
public nudity and sex, as well as performances by the anti-Catholic
group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
It broke into the headlines this year with its promotional image
mocking the Last Supper scene of Jesus Christ and his disciples,
replacing the biblical leaders with leather-adorned men and the
bread and wine with sex toys.
The Catholic League had called a boycott of the Miller Brewing Co.
after the beer giant failed to have its logo removed from the
event.
Catholic League President Bill Donohue has said he'd like Miller to
rescind its sponsorship completely.
But officials say the brewer has declined, and so this distribution
of photographs will allow leaders, residents and workers in the
company's hometown see the results of the company's
sponsorship.
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"We have been informed by Miller Brewing that it is not prepared at
this time to offer assurances that it will never again sponsor an
anti-Christian event; it merely says that it is conducting an audit
of its marketing policies. Accordingly, our response to Miller's
balk is as follows," Donohue said.
"We are mailing pictures of the anti-Christian and sadomasochistic
Folsom Street Fair that Miller so proudly sponsors to Milwaukee
Archbishop Timothy Dolan and to the 211 Catholic parishes in the
archdiocese. We want all Catholics in Milwaukee to know exactly
what Miller stands for," he said.
"The mailing to Catholics is just the first of many mailings we
have planned. Every week we will announce a new segment of the
Milwaukee community that will receive the photos. If Miller wants
to be so bold as to throw Catholics and Protestants overboard for
the sake of siding with the most morally depraved persons in our
society persons with whom no self-respecting heterosexual or
homosexual would ever associate then it must suffer the
consequences. The boycott is on, and now the campaign to blanket
religious and secular leaders in the Milwaukee community with the
evidence of Miller's complicity in this sordid affair has begun,"
he said.
"We hated to put them up, but thought it was important for people
to know," Kiera McCaffrey, director of communications for the
League, told WND about the online postings. "Milwaukee deserves
better than this."
"Certainly the people of Milwaukee will be disgusted to see this,"
she said. "That's why we feel it's important people actually see
what's going on."
She said the photographs have been edited, unlike the event itself,
so there's no full frontal nudity.
"We're not mailing these to children. We're mailing these to
pastors of churches, to grownups.
These pictures are awful," she
said.
Also providing graphic documentation about the Folsom event is
Americans for Truth, whose chief, Peter LaBarbera, and Allyson
Smith attended the event.
The results of their trip also are posted online under a warning
of extremely graphic content.
A child watching a show sponsored by a San Francisco bathhouse
company (Photo by Americans for Truth)
"We saw children, we saw about 4-5 kids," LaBarbera told WND. "It's
incredible that a parent would bring his or her children into that
environment.
He said police officers also were present, but there was no
apparent effort to enforce any public nudity ban. "I saw hundreds
of men totally nude except for sneakers," he said. "Women were
walking along in master-slave relationships. It was pretty weird to
see people led around by chains."
"We spoke with several policemen and security guards and the
consensus was that rampant nudity and public sex are expected every
year at Folsom Street (this was the event's 25th year) and that it
is the city's politicians from the mayor on down who are to
blame for allowing it," AFTAH's report said. "(Mayor Gavin Newsom
greeted Folsom Street attendees in a letter published in the Fairs
program, warmly telling them to 'have a great day and enjoy this
wonderful and exciting event.') It seemed to us that police, as law
'enforcers,' were put in the very awkward position of overseeing
sexual anarchy and general lawlessness, as there was expectation
that laws would be enforced to stop the public sex and nudity
assuming such anti-lewdness laws in San Francisco and
California."
He said an addition to the nudity, there were sex acts going on in
public.
"There was utter lawlessness and sexual anarchy. We actually
witnessed oral sex on the streets," he said. "There were public
whippings and spankings."
White House Press Secretary Dana Perino recently sidestepped a
question about the event's mocking of the Last Supper, a move first
exposed by the Christian group Concerned Women for America.
Folsom Street Fair promotional poster
"The president does not believe that the First Amendment prohibits
him from speaking out against the Miller Brewing Company's widely
reported financing of an obscene parody of 'Jesus Christ's Last
Supper' in San Francisco, does he?" Les Kinsolving, WND's
correspondent at the White House, asked.
But Perino's response was only: "Well, you're clearing the room,
Les. I'm going to decline to comment."
The "clearing the room" reference was to NBC reporter Kelly
O'Donnell, who, according to the Catholic League, "stormed out of
the room [when Kinsolving asked his question] muttering her
disapproval of Kinsolving's question."
The Catholic League said it considered that Perino dropped the ball
on the question, and it would not hesitate to comment on both
issues:
"She [Perino] was asked a legitimate question about a viciously
obscene and anti-Christian event one that President Bush would
never speak approvingly of and she got cold feet," the
organization said. "Perino did so because she followed the lead of
NBC reporter Kelly O'Donnell who stormed out of the room muttering
her disapproval of Kinsolving's question."
"We'd love to know what is bugging O'Donnell (does she like public
displays of S&M and Christian bashing?), but the larger issue
is why the Bush administration appointed a coward as its press
secretary. Tony Snow would never have allowed a member of the press
corps to set the table."
As WND also has reported, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in whose
district the event was held, offered a dismissive quip when she was
asked about the mockery of the Last Supper.
"As a Catholic, the speaker is confident that Christianity has not
been harmed," said Drew Hammill, the San Francisco Democrat's press
secretary.
