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Chocolate Jesus stirs bitter controversy - CNN.com
by Shannon at 2:58 pm EDT, Mar 30, 2007

New York (Reuters) -- A life-size sculpture of a naked Jesus made out of chocolate has angered a Roman Catholic organization and forced a Manhattan art gallery to reconsider exhibiting it during Easter week.
The sculpture "My Sweet Lord" by Cosimo Cavallaro was to be exhibited for two hours each day next week in a street-level window of the Roger Smith Lab Gallery in Midtown Manhattan.
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"They would never dare do something similar with a chocolate statue of the prophet Mohammad naked with his genitals exposed during Ramadan," she said.

Tom Waits must be proud.

RE: Chocolate Jesus stirs bitter controversy - CNN.com
by skullaria at 4:48 am EDT, Mar 31, 2007

I understand it was canceled, which I think was very, very wrong. If people didn't want to see it, they just didn't have to GO.

It might have been good art - I'd have liked to see it myself.

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