A BBC video belittles Christian street preachers and says that Holy Communion “smells like hate.”
Bishop John Keenan of Paisley told the Catholic Herald on Friday that the “BBC The Social” video, which has been viewed over 8.5 million times on Facebook, is “offensive to Catholics in both the words and images used.”
The video, with the caption “this is how homophobia feels in 2018” features a spoken free-verse poem by a young gay man who says that society is judging him for romantic displays of affection with his boyfriend.
The video takes a critical look at different people in society who would disapprove of gay relationships, including those in the faith community. It depicts a man who appears to be an angry street preacher yelling at the gay man, with the words “see him, he thinks it’s faith.”
Then it switches over to a woman receiving Holy Communion inside a church, though the priest is depicted holding Mini Cheddars instead of sacramental bread. When the woman eats the wafer, the voice says, “But under all that din, it tastes like cardboard and smells like hate.”
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