{"id":2122,"date":"2006-08-01T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/08\/mel-gibson-asks-the-jewish-community-for-help\/"},"modified":"2006-08-01T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T09:50:00","slug":"mel-gibson-asks-the-jewish-community-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/08\/mel-gibson-asks-the-jewish-community-for-help.html","title":{"rendered":"Mel Gibson asks the Jewish community for help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Mel Gibson<\/a> has finally confirmed that the \u201cdespicable\u201d comments he made, while he was being arrested for alleged drunk driving, were in fact anti-Semitic<\/a>. And now he\u2019s asking for help. Here\u2019s his latest statement, issued today, via the Associated Press<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of anti-Semitic remark. I want to apologize specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested on a DUI charge.<\/p>\n

I am a public person, and when I say something, either articulated and thought out, or blurted out in a moment of insanity, my words carry weight in the public arena. As a result, I must assume personal responsibility for my words and apologize directly to those who have been hurt and offended by those words. <\/p>\n

The tenets of what I profess to believe necessitate that I exercise charity and tolerance as a way of life. Every human being is God\u2019s child, and if I wish to honor my God I have to honor his children. But please know from my heart that I am not an anti-Semite. I am not a bigot. Hatred of any kind goes against my faith.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not just asking for forgiveness. I would like to take it one step further, and meet with leaders in the Jewish community, with whom I can have a one on one discussion to discern the appropriate path for healing.<\/p>\n

I have begun an ongoing program of recovery and what I am now realizing is that I cannot do it alone. I am in the process of understanding where those vicious words came from during that drunken display, and I am asking the Jewish community, whom I have personally offended, to help me on my journey through recovery. Again, I am reaching out to the Jewish community for its help. I know there will be many in that community who will want nothing to do with me, and that would be understandable. But I pray that that door is not forever closed.<\/p>\n

This is not about a film. Nor is it about artistic license. This is about real life and recognizing the consequences hurtful words can have. Its about existing in harmony in a world that seems to have gone mad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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