During the Mel Gibson “Passion” controversy, the right-wing rabbi and family values campaigner Daniel Lapin argued that Gibson “has made it ‘cool’ to be religious.” Lapin has now released a statement. Andrew Sullivan draws our attention to a very important disclosure. Lapin says:
It is all too easy to join the circling hyenas and denounce [Mel] Gibson while he is down. On the other hand, though he has provided some financial support to Toward Tradition, I don’t feel obliged to leap to his defense.
Gibson contributed money to Lapin’s political organization. Lapin flacked for Mel’s movie and had the temerity to pose as a moralist.
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