Is the passion movie obscene?

[Frank Cross]

To me, Lipkin's position sounds much like those who said:  "If communism is 
hostile to the USA, then America is justified in not letting communists 
tell their stories."

If you don't tolerate those who are hostile to you, what's the point of 
tolerance?



At 07:24 AM 3/1/2004, RJLipkin at aol.com wrote:
>          This discussion tracks discussions about tolerance we've had on 
> this List, though more abundantly on the Religion & Law List. Just who is 
> intolerant the person committed to a religion that denigrates or is 
> otherwise hostile to another person's religion. Can the former 
> justifiably insist that the latter should be tolerant or as Rabbi Marc 
> Gellman and Michael Medved have said Jews need to allow Christians to 
> tell their story?
>
>            Please understand I have not seen the Passion nor am I 
> sufficiently familiar with the theological and philosophical foundations 
> of Christianity to claim that Christianity is hostile to Judaism.  My 
> point is simply a conceptual one, namely: if Christianity is hostile to 
> Judaism (please let me emphasize the "if"), then I disagree vehemently 
> with Rabbi Gellman (who, I cannot resist revealing, wrote his 
> dissertation on abortion under my supervision at Northwestern University) 
> and others who insist that Jews let Christians tell their story.
>
>         This issue is a difficult one for those who examine and write 
> about tolerance. What does tolerance dictate as the appropriate attitude 
> of minorities especially, but also majorities, concerning the stories of 
> others when these stories denigrate (truthfully or not) the stories, 
> roles and, even in some cases,  the existence of the individuals in question?
>
>
>Bobby
>
>
>Robert Justin Lipkin
>Professor of Law
>Widener University School of Law
>Delaware
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Frank Cross
Herbert D. Kelleher Centennial Professor of Business Law
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University of Texas at Austin
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