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Christians in Spain spoke out against a recently revealed poster featuring Jesus Christ for being too \u201ceffeminate\u201d and \u201csexualized.\u201d The poster, revealed in Seville to promote Easter week, was designed by local artist Salustiano Garcia and was commissioned by the Council of Brotherhoods and Guilds. The poster is meant to display Jesus, with bright red lips, after his resurrection as he stands nearly naked, a white cloth loosely hanging around his slightly akimbo hips. The Council stated the poster was meant to show \u201cthe radiant side of Holy Week.\u201d<\/p>\n

The poster\u2019s reveal, however, caused quite the stir amongst conservative Christian groups, particularly Catholics. Pablo Hertfelder Garcia-Conde, president of the Instituto de Politica Social (Institute of Social Policy in English or IPSE) called the poster an \u201caberration.<\/a>\u201d Translated from Spanish, Garcia-Conde said, \u201cThis poster is an aberration, breaking with the true meaning of Holy Week, and the artist has consciously done so.\u201d He stated the poster portrayed Jesus as \u201ceffeminate\u201d and \u201ccamp.\u201d In a separate post<\/a>, the IPSE called for the poster to be withdrawn completely. Javier Navarro of Spain’s conservative Vox Party rebutted claims that the poster was \u201cartistic.\u201d \u201cIt is not about artistic tastes, it is about the poster fulfilling the purpose for which it is intended and it is none other than encouraging the devout participation of the faithful in Holy Week in Seville,\u201d he wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cIt is evident that this poster was seeking provocation and the Council has allowed it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The poster\u2019s creator, however, pushed back against criticism. \u201cThere is nothing revolutionary in the painting. There is contemporaneity, but all the elements that I have used are elements that have been used in the last seven centuries in sacred art. I don\u2019t see at what point, at what element, people who don\u2019t like it don\u2019t like it,\u201d he said<\/a>. He also denied claims of the poster being \u201chomoerotic.\u201d \u201cA gay Christ because he looks sweet and is handsome, come on! We are in the 21st century.\u201d He also called people who claimed the poster to be sexualized as \u201csick<\/a>.\u201d He stated he used his son as a model for the painting. \u201cWe both laughed when we discovered this controversy and we are very surprised by the politicization of the painting,\u201d he said. The Socialists, the leading power in Spain, called criticisms against the painting \u201chomophobic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking in an interview,<\/a> Garcia-Conde called the poster a result of a \u201cprogressive culture.\u201d He claimed that a progressive culture wants to break \u201ctradition and means of communication by breaking society\u2019s structures, however not for the good but in order to change our values and ideas.\u201d \u00a0He called it a \u201cprogressive ideology, but not one of progress, but of idiocy.\u201d A petition to remove the poster on change.org had garnered over 20,000 signatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christians in Spain spoke out against a recently revealed poster featuring Jesus Christ for being too \u201ceffeminate\u201d and \u201csexualized.\u201d The poster, revealed in Seville to promote Easter week, was designed by local artist Salustiano Garcia and was commissioned by the Council of Brotherhoods and Guilds. 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