The Mother Mary in Drag? Pink Christmas! Amsterdam is not Kansas!!

AMSTERDAM: This city played host Sunday to a Christmas celebration for its gay community that featured a Nativity tableau with a man in drag playing the part of Mary.
Frank van Dalen, chairman of the advocacy group Pro Gay that organized the event, known as Pink Christmas, said that it sought to raise Amsterdam's profile as a capital for gays.
Van Dalen said the event cost €15,000, or $20,800, and that it had been sponsored by the City Council. He added that he hoped it would become a regular attraction, as is the gay pride parade that brings tens of thousands of visitors to Amsterdam each year.
"Our objective is not to be offensive," he said. "This is about visibility."
Nevertheless, Christians for Truth, an independent religious group, asked the City Council to cancel the event, saying it made a mockery of Christian tenets. "By portraying Joseph and Mary as homosexuals, a twisted human fantasy is being added to the history of the Bible," the group said in a statement.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/21/europe/netherlands.php

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