Playboy apologizes for cover in Mexico featuring nearly nude 'Mary'

[underpants]

Playboy, based in Chicago, has offered its "sincerest apologizes" for the newest issue of its Mexican edition, which seems to poke irreverent (some would say lewd) fun at the Virgin Mary.

The magazine's cover features a model clad (barely) in a white cloth, in front of a stained glass window. The headline, "Te adoramos, Maria," means in English, "We love you Mary," or "We love you, Maria." (The model is Maria Florencia Onori.)

The magazine hit the stands on Dec. 1 -- seven days before the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a holy day of obligation in the Catholic Church; and 11 days before an even bigger holiday in Mexico, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, commemorating the supposed appearance of the Virgin to a Mexican peasant, Juan Diego, in 1531.

In its apology, Playboy said the Mexican edition of the magazine is published by a licensee, and that the parent company did not approve the cover.

"While Playboy Mexico never meant for the cover or images to offend anyone, we recognize that it has created offense, and we as well as Playboy Mexico offer our sincerest apologies," the company said.



http://religionblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/12/playboy-apologizes-for-cover-i.html

[amitten]

1. That is pretty tacky. n/t

[Bok_Tukalo]

5. Silicone Mary

There's a decent blog name there.

[Dr.Phool]

20. Our Lady of the Immaculate Hooters.

[gorfle]

2. Horses have left the barn.

Does anyone actually read Playboy anymore? These people would shit if they ever did an unfiltered Google search.

[peace frog]

3. They distributed this mag cover

in a majority-Catholic country and are surprised at the response? WTF were they thinking? Oh right, they weren't.

[LeftyMom]

4. Mary's defiance of gravity is a miracle indeed.

Damn.

[rurallib]

9. The son of god needs proper nursing tools.

[izquierdista]

6. I like it!

Nice poke in the eye of organized religion.

[Fumesucker]

7. Even in Mexico you can see more skin on any beach..

The woman isn't even close to "nearly nude".

[anigbrowl]

8. Yeah, but they cover up in church

The phrase 'asking for trouble' springs to mind.

[Fumesucker]

11. I didn't realize that Playboy was sold in the churches..

Imagine my surprise..

[anigbrowl]

13. I'm talking about the cover photo. Stained glass window suggests church.

[T Wolf]

10. Two things - notice how the apology was a real one, not the "we are sorry if anyone was offended"

crap we are used to from the pukes.

Second, people who are offended need to lighten up. It's pretty goddamned benign as far as "blasphemy" goes.

[The Straight Story]

12. She makes me want to touch my rosary

:rofl:

[dweller]

21. I know !!!!!1

i gripped mine so hard, it popped the beads off one by one, sent them flying across the room!

:rofl:

dp

[HillWilliam]

14. Never does it fail to amaze me

what silliness over which people will choose expend perfectly good outrage, when there is growing homelessness, hunger, disease, and war -- all the things JC stood against.

Meh. All those are just waaaaaaaaaaahhh!!! toooooo harrrrrrrd!!, might require a little effort, a little personal investment to fix. (Personal effort and personal investment were good enough for JC, just observin' here.)

YNK. Mary of Nazareth might be thinking, "Nu, two thousand years, and only just now someone gets an idea I might have been worth looking at, too, or maybe thinking of as more than just Somebody's Mom. I might have been more than someone to cook three meals, wash the dishes, keep a frum house, and schlep the kids on the donkey from home to schul to soccer practice and back again. (sigh) It's ok. I'll just sit here in the dark, never mind me..."

[sellitman]

15. That ________ really stands out!

Modern science is grand!!!!!

[Riverman]

16. What Mary was Never unclothed? Oh Yeah, the Immaculate

Thing! Even still she must of had breasts with which to feed the babe in swaddling clothes. Hell, with air-brushing and Photo-shopping, the girls in PB have been immaculate too! Get over it. This is 2008, not 312 A.D. when those lovely myths got started with vigor!

http://www.reformation.org/pope-constantine.html

[Goblinmonger]

18. Feast of the Immaculate Conception

is about Mary's conception and not Jesus'. Mary had to be a clean vessel for the Lord and not some stinky regular woman of the time.

[Goblinmonger]

17. I think the stained glass window is an upside-down vagina

Nobody's pissed about that?

If that was Mary, no wonder god went after her.

[Dr.Phool]

19. Blasphemy is a victimless crime.