Crucified Madonna causes controversy

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Madonna on a cross "Less than 12 hours after Madonna crucified herself on a mirrored cross, the Catholic League expressed its discontent with the concert stunt.

The controversial diva wore a crown of thorns and sang while hanging from a cross during Sunday night's opener of her 'Confessions' world tour at The Forum in Inglewood.

'Knock off the Christ-bashing,' Catholic League president Bill Donohue said in a statement Monday. 'It's just pathetic.'" [CNN]

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posted at 12:27 PM on May 24, 2006 in music | Comments (15)

Comments (15)

rufus wainwright crucified himself on his last tour. i don't remember the catholic league getting their panties in a twist over that, though, and you'd think that a faggot on the cross would be the very thing to do that. hm.

Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2006 12:52 PM

a little controversy keeps Maddy in the news. Don't think her mgmt. doesn't know that.

Posted by drewo | May 24, 2006 1:02 PM

madonna is really kinda sad. if anyone believes she actually has a point to this shit beyond getting attention..well, i dont know what to say to you.

Posted by andrew | May 24, 2006 1:03 PM

marilyn manson did that with a cross made of tv's like 5 years ago... way cooler.

Posted by bill | May 24, 2006 1:29 PM

Yay, so Madonna manages to conjur up another fake controversy. How many is that now? Guess when you release a record no one gives a damn about, you have to get attention some way. And to boot she's not even particularly original about it.

Posted by Matt | May 24, 2006 1:37 PM

Funny. I didn't know there was a "t" in "lame."

If the famous children's book author'd hung herself by a thick red Kabbalah rope then I'd have paid attention. Crucifixion is so 2000 years ago.

Posted by J | May 24, 2006 1:53 PM

If it's any consolation to the church, on first glance I thought that was the scarecrow from wizard of oz on first glance.
That woman is a damn fool.

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Posted by Marco Stern | May 24, 2006 2:59 PM

I like that Donohue from the Catholic League didn't express concern, but rather deemed it "pathetic". This truly is a bore... it was equally boring when Kanye did it for the Rolling Stone cover too.

Posted by Mark B. | May 24, 2006 3:51 PM

BV - What's wrong here? That's gotta be one of your lamest headlines ever....hello, duh?

But your blog rocks. But you knew that already.

Posted by Dfactor | May 24, 2006 5:13 PM

Religion is for suckers.

Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2006 6:00 PM

nothing to see here folks, move along.

Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2006 11:46 PM

nothing to see here folks, move along.

Posted by Anonymous | May 24, 2006 11:46 PM

please "madonna", just retire already

Posted by mattb | May 25, 2006 3:52 PM