money to 'get even' with me." The report says Gibson then launched into a barrage of anti-Semitic statements: "F*****g Jews... The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." Gibson then asked the deputy, "Are you a Jew?" The deputy became alarmed as Gibson's tirade escalated, and called ahead for a sergeant to meet them when they arrived at the station. When they arrived, a sergeant began videotaping Gibson, who noticed the camera and then said, "What the f*** do you think you're doing?" A law enforcement source says Gibson then noticed another female sergeant and yelled, "What do you think you're looking at, sugar tits?" We're told Gibson took two blood alcohol tests, which were videotaped, and continued saying how "f****d" he was and how he was going to "f***" Deputy Mee.

Thanks to the National Stonewall Democrats for that report.

Gibson deserves every statement of condemnation that he has gotten for this viciously bigoted tirade, which only confirms suspicions of his anti-Semitic attitude that were much discussed at the time of the debut of "The Passion of the Christ," a cult hit among evangelical Christians that earned Gibson millions in profit.

But what about Gibson's anti-gay tirades? He has never apologized for his outrageously bigoted homophobic rants in the 1990s. According to Gay City News,

In 1992, he told a Spanish paper re: gay men, "They take it up the ass. This is only for taking a shit." Asked about his own fears about being perceived as gay, he said, "Do I sound like a homosexual? Do I talk like them? Do I move like them? I think not." (Fans of "Gallipoli" and "The Year of Living Dangerously" might be excused for thinking otherwise.) His Oscar-winning 1995 film "Braveheart" about Scottish hero William Wallace included a ludicrous and ahistorical anti-gay scene where Prince Edward is portrayed as an effeminate gay man whose lover is defenestrated by King Edward I. At the behest of GLAAD, Gibson tried to make amends by hosting a seminar for ten gay filmmakers in 1997, but he never apologized and went on to portray Herod in "The Passion of the Christ" as an effeminate homosexual surrounded by boys.

Gibson is not only an enormously wealthy actor, he is also a very powerful figure in Hollywood, so it should not be surprising to the cynical to learn that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department engaged in a cover-up to prevent the public from learning of Gibson's anti-Jewish rampage, as first reported by the website TMZ:

But the mainstream media have engaged in a different kind of cover-up through their indifference to Gibson's virulent homophobia. I happen to think we should take both anti-Semitism and homophobia seriously. Both are forms of bigotry, and perhaps had the mainstream media and the advocacy organizations that are now condemning Gibson for his anti-Semitism challenged his homophobia back in the day, he would have gotten the help he so obviously needs before last week's DUI episode in Malibu. Who knows? Maybe he would have made a film very different from the ahistorical and almost grotesquely exaggerated "Passion of the Christ."

Speaking of whom, the question occurs to me: What Would Jesus Say? Would the historical Jesus -- whom Mel claims to love more than anyone -- referred to "f*****g Jews"...? I think not. Would he have referred to "f*****g fags"...? I think not. I'm not sure what 'fag' would be in Aramaic, but I am fairly certain that Jesus of Nazareth would not have used such a word even if it had existed in his native language at the time. Like Mel Gibson, I was raised Christian; unlike Mel Gibson, I now identify as post-Christian. But I take seriously Jesus' injunction, "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you" (Matthew 5:44, KJV).

Gibson's two statements of apology for last week's anti-Semitic tirade have more than just a whiff of insincerity and desperation. Eager to save his career, Gibson no doubt asked his agent to help him cobble together some statement that would mollify his critics, and when the first one didn't work, he proferred an even more exaggerated apology, somewhat bizarrely asking the Jewish community to help him deal with his demons. But Gibson has never asked the LGBT community to forgive him for his homophobic tirades -- precisely because he knows that such statements have not and will not harm his career.

So once again, I feel compelled to ask, WWJS? For all Mel Gibson's self-righteous and ostentatiously public professions of Christianity and Christian 'family values,' his homophobic rants -- just ask much as his anti-Semitic tirades -- are as removed from the spirit of the Jesus of the Gospels as one can imagine; how sad and how telling that Gibson does not seem capable of understanding that.