Choc Christ exhibition scrapped over outrage

Ok, so the Christian right are saying when people have "come to their senses." You have got to be kidding me!!
Who gets to eat the chocolate. It's got to taste better than those communion wafers which, after all, represent "the corpse of Christ."
Kudos to you Mr. Cavallero for making it and Mr Semler for displaying it and resigning in protest of having to take it down. This is art and weather you like it or not it should be un-censored and displayed for those who wish to see it.
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A Manhattan art gallery has cancelled its Easter-season exhibit of a life-size chocolate sculpture of a naked Jesus after an outcry by Catholics.

The gallery's artistic director has tendered his resignation to protest the cancellation.

International artist Cosimo Cavallaro's sculpture, My Sweet Lord, 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.

The 300,000-strong Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights had written to 500 religious and secular organisations, calling for a boycott of the affiliated Roger Smith Hotel.

A spokeswoman for the right-wing group, Kiera McCaffrey, says it is delighted with the outcome.

"We're glad that they came to their senses," she said.

Ms McCaffrey has called the display, which was due to open tomorrow, "an assault on Christians during Holy Week".

"They would never dare do something similar with a chocolate statue of the prophet Mohammad naked with his genitals exposed during Ramadan," she said.

The Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Edward Egan, has called the sculpture "scandalous" and a "sickening display".