Mel Gibson said his wife can't go to heaven? Unbelievable.

madfloridian

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Sun Apr-26-09 11:10 PM
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Mel Gibson said his wife can't go to heaven? Unbelievable.

He is really a piece of work. Okay, hey, I know old time Southern Baptists (which I used to be but recovering now)...say Catholics and Jews won't go to heaven. But Mel said his wife can't go to heaven because she is Episcopalian? At least that is how I read it in this Salon article.

Mel Gibson's Family Values

April 26, 2009 | Holy Week ended with a big bang in the conservative Catholic community. Robyn Moore, Mel Gibson�s wife of 28 years and mother of their seven children, filed for divorce in Los Angeles. With no prenuptial agreement, she is likely to get a settlement worth somewhere around half a billion dollars. Seems like a small price for 28 years of living with Mad Max and his homophobia, anti-Semitism and ultra-orthodox Catholicism.

In a joint statement, the couple acknowledge that they separated in August 2006 shortly after Gibson was arrested for drunk driving. When he was arrested Gibson publicly humiliated his family by engaging in a drunken tirade claiming that the Jews started all the wars in the world and asking a female police sergeant who was filming the event, "What are you looking at, sugar tits."

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Mel Gibson and his wife, Robyn, arrive at the Academy Awards in 1997.

Why is it that these right-wing family-values guys are always the worst sinners? Newt Gingrich, Ted Haggard, Larry Craig and now Mel Gibson. Gibson was quoted in the Observer in 2000 as having said, "There is nothing more important than your family. If you ruin that part of your life, what�s left? Work? Money? Screwing around? I see a lot of people living like that tell themselves they�re having a good time, but if you look under the surface you see lots of corpses masquerading as human beings." And speaking of corpses, Gibson has an odd view of who is going to heaven and who is not. His wife, for example, is not, in the Gospel according to Mel. He acknowledges that she is "a saint, she�s a much better person than I am," but rules are rules. She is, he notes, "like, Episcopalian, Church of England. She prays, she believes in God, knows Jesus, she believes in all that stuff, but that's not good enough. And it�s just not fair if she doesn't make it," laments Mel, "but that�s a pronouncement from the chair. I go with it."

In case you don�t get the reference, the chair is the throne of St. Peter. When popes issue their very rare infallible teachings, they are said to do so "ex cathedra," from the chair. Gibson falsely believes some pope infallibly declared that only Catholics go to heaven.

I have lost all patience with religious bigots. We left our Southern Baptist Church over the Iraq War, but we never were really good enough for them.

I see relatives who still attend that church in various areas in Central Florida. They are so stuck on believing the Bible is literal, believing what is said from the pulpit instead of doing their own thinking....they find us hard to understand. There is no common ground anymore at all.

Gibson's wife was a saint, truly, for putting up with that so many years.