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Pastor creates furor with sign blaming jews { February 26 2004 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.wftv.com/news/2875673/detail.html http://www.wftv.com/news/2875673/detail.html WFTV.com Pastor Creates Furor With Sign Blaming Jews For Crucifixion POSTED: 7:14 AM EST February 26, 2004 UPDATED: 9:46 AM EST February 26, 2004 DENVER -- A pastor displayed the message "Jews Killed The Lord Jesus" in front of his church on a busy Denver thoroughfare Wednesday, prompting outrage from Jews and Christians alike. The sign in front of Lovingway United Pentecostal Church upset one passer-by so much she bought a ladder that afternoon to remove the first word. Church members later took down the rest of the words. Pastor Maurice Gordon said he was inspired by the intense discussion leading to Wednesday's release of the Mel Gibson film "The Passion of the Christ," which some have criticized as anti-Semitic and others have hailed as powerfully portraying the Crucifixion of Christ. Gibson has said the movie does not blame Jews for the death of Jesus. "I had been listening to debate back and forth on talk radio about who really did it," Gordon told The Associated Press in a phone interview. "What I did, right or wrong, was to give a citation from the Apostle Paul." "You only want to do this maybe once in a lifetime," Gordon said. "At least hopefully it will get people to go back and read the fine print in the Bible." The woman who altered the message board said she drove to the church after hearing about the sign at a Jewish education class. Ami Ship said she knocked on the doors and called the church's number on her cell phone. "No one would answer," said Ship, who is Jewish. "I just wanted to talk to them and see if they would take the sign down." She decided not to wait, buying the ladder and a tarp at a store across the street, intending to cover the sign. When that didn't work, she removed the word "Jews" from the message board. "I'm raising four Jewish little girls, and I would like the community to be a safe place for all religions," Ship said. "I felt it was anti-Semitic, incorrect, and a cowardly thing to do." Gordon's sign prompted a response Wednesday night from the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, an international Jewish human rights organization that urged Christian leaders in Denver to rebuke the church for posting the sign. "The Jewish people has suffered from the libel of deicide for nearly two thousand years," said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the center. "We continue to look to our Christian neighbors and friends to rebuke those who would pass off this canard as theology." Dr. James Ryan of the Colorado Council of Churches also was deeply troubled by the sign. "I would hope that they would hear the outcry not just of the Jewish community, but of the Christian community as well, that this is not a true representation of the gospel of love and grace of Jesus Christ," Ryan said. Colorado Anti-Defamation League spokesman Bruce DeBoskey said he was upset that Gordon had chosen to spread a message of "divisiveness and ultimately bigotry and hate" when the ADL and others are trying to bring Jews and Christians closer together. Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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