Their Cross to Bear?

In a recent ad for PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Joanna Krupa posed nude. That's nothing new, as many celebrities have posed in their birthday suits for PETA's various ads. The trouble is, she poses with a crucifix strategically placed to cover her endowments.

This is an insult to the Catholic Church and to Catholics generally. No one should use such sacred icons as a drawing point in a commercial advertisement. Particularly one which involves the sort of nudity that the Church and Her followers would not support. To have a former Playboy model sport the main image of their religion in such a playful way is both shocking and revolting.

Why is it that, given all the hue and cry anymore about relatively unimportant slights, it is acceptable to mock important Christian symbols? You may recall that years ago when an 'artist' placed a crucifix in urine and photographed it, it was called art. One cannot help but wonder if society would have given it the same sanction had it been a Star of David or something representative of Islam or Buddhism or MLK Day.

This ad is nothing less than disrespectful and inconsiderate. So long as PETA treats the world as its stage with such offensive attacks, it will never reach mainstream America. Such outlandishness cannot appeal to the common citizen.