Mel Gibson Addresses Accusations of Anti-Semitism
ABC News, Oct. 13, 2006 — - Actor-director Mel Gibson told Diane Sawyer today that he was "ashamed" by the remarks about Jews he made during his July arrest for driving while intoxicated.
As most people have heard, Gibson is devoutly religious, which is what inspired him to make "The Passion of the Christ."
His church is a Catholic splinter group called traditionalist Catholics. The group feels the modern Catholic Church has abandoned the real faith.
His father, 88-year-old Hutton Gibson, is well known for his writings that attack the Vatican.
Gibson's church believes in the Latin Mass and literal reading of the Bible. Gibson has talked about a war of biblical proportions, though no one can say when it will happen or where.
On the night of July 28, Gibson said he knew what might have been in his mind as he drunkenly said, "Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world."
"That's fear related, OK? So, you know, you have your own fears about these things," he said on "Good Morning America."
"Now, maybe it was just that very day that Lebanon and Israel were at it, you know," Gibson said of that night. [Entire Story]
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