If you didn't watch the Emmy Awards on Sunday then perhaps you did not catch Emmy Award winner Kathy Griffin's acceptance speech in which she made some disparaging remarks about Jesus. The silence you hear from Hollywood goes back to my post of a few days ago, Questions. Why is it OK to speak of Jesus that way publicly with no uproar? You can bet that if she had said the same thing about Allah she'd have been blacklisted. Hollywood has no tolerance for the intolerant (see Mel Gibson, Isaiah Washington, Michael Richards, and Don Imus as prime examples) unless that intolerance is vented at Christians. And then, when Christians stand up and say anything about it, we are treated with contempt. It's Ok for "politically correct" groups to express outrage, but not Christians. We simply have to take it.
But Jesus is used to that. He took it on the cross. And he responded not with outrage, but forgiveness.
Perhaps we who follow him should follow that example, too.
It's probably asking too much of Hollywood to be consistent and side with anyone whose race, or sexual orientation, or religion is held up for ridicule, but one can always hope.
But for those of us who follow Jesus, cheek-turning seems to be making a return in the 21st Century.
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