Left Forces Try Transgendering Jesus For Holy Week 2024

The creators of the poster, of course, don’t call it “transgendering” the Only Begotten Son of God”, but only showing "the radiant side of Holy Week”. (Yaho, Jan. 29, 2024).

“It shows "the radiant side of Holy Week" in the "purest style of this prestigious painter," said the Council of Brotherhoods and Guilds which organises the main Easter week events in the southern city.

“Designed by Seville artist Salustiano Garcia, the poster shows Christ after his resurrection from the dead, stood semi-naked in front of a blood-red background, with the lower part of his body covered by a white cloth.

“A poster of Christ to promote Easter week in Seville has drawn a sharp backlash from Spanish ultra-conservatives, who denounced it as "effeminate" and "offensive" to Roman Catholics.

"In a social media backlash, however, many people denounced the poster as “sexualised".

Note, according to the story, it’s only “Spanish ultra-conservatives”, and “social media backlash” objecting to this hideous heretical presentation of Christ.

"It's absolutely shameful and an aberration," wrote the ultra-conservative Catholic IPSE, which says it fosters "respect for Christian symbols" and is active in opposing abortion.(Yahoo)

“The image portrayed Christ as "effeminate" and "camp", it said, demanding a public apology from the artist for a poster that was not in the spirit of Holy Week.

“Javier Navarro of the far-right Vox party joined the chorus of disapproval, saying the poster "sought to provoke" and did not advance the aim of "encouraging the faithful to participate in Holy Week in Seville" in remarks on X, formerly Twitter. (Yahoo)

“The artist told the right-wing ABC newspaper that his portrayal of Christ, which was based on an image of his son, was "gentle, elegant and beautiful" and created with "deep respect".

"To see sexuality in my image of Christ, you must be mad," he said, insisting there was "nothing" in his painting that "has not already been represented in artworks dating back hundreds of years”.

“Juan Espadas, leader of Spain's ruling Socialist party in the southern Andalusia region, immediately came to the defence of the artwork, denouncing the "expressions of homophobia and hatred" that it had sparked, and saying it combined the region's "tradition and modernity".

“Holy Week celebrations, which recall the death and resurrection of Christ, are very important in deeply Catholic Spain, notably in Seville, which is widely seen as the centre of such festivities.

"Spain decriminalised homosexuality in 1978, three years after Franco's dictatorship ended, and is one of the world's most open countries with respect to LGBTQ rights, permitting same-sex marriage and allowing gay couples to adopt since 2005.”

We don’t know whether artist Garcia’s son is an image of "gentle, elegant and beautiful”, or if the poster was created with "deep respect”, but we do know for certain that Christ is “the Only Begotten” SON of God Almighty, and therefore IMPOSSIBLE to transgender by any means, artistic or otherwise.