I’m sorry, this just strikes me as funny

Apparently a 61 year old nun is protesting the filming of The DaVinci Code at Lincoln Cathedral.

The dean of the Cathedral, while calling the book “a load of old tosh” okayed the use of the Cathedral for filming because – well, for the money, let’s just say it plainly.

…despite the dean of Lincoln Cathedral branding the book ‘a load of old tosh’ he has agreed to let the movie be filmed there. He and the church authorities said yes after the producers donated £100,000 to the coffers.

Meanwhile, Sr. Mary Michael is not having any of it: “It goes against what we believe.”

But all of that is background. To me, this is the funny part:

Yesterday (Tom) Hanks, 49, who plays the hero, university lecturer Robert Langdon, was driven the few dozen yards from his hotel to the cathedral.

He quickly disappeared inside the building with director Ron Howard and co-star Sir Ian McKellen.

Wow…if Hanks, Howard and McKellen need to be whizzed through a line of “dozens” of protestors and one aging nun, who are not calling them murderers or killers “feasting on the blood of our children,” and who are not raging at all, then I guess it’s quite understandable, after all, that President Bush – the leader of the free world – would feel alright about passing by the protester with whom he had already met.

I don’t know, I just always appreciate things like that.