A leading art gallery is being taken to court over claims that it outraged public decency by displaying a statue depicting Christ with an erection.
The sculpture was the most provocative item in an exhibition at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead.
Other pieces in the show by the controversial Chinese-born artist Terence Koh included models of Mickey Mouse and ET, also with erections.
...The prosecution has been launched by Emily Mapfuwa, 40, an NHS administrator from Brentwood, Essex, who read about the exhibition in newspapers. ‘I don’t think this gallery would insult Muslims in this way, so why Christians?’ she said.
Father Christopher Warren, of the Roman Catholic cathedral of St Mary’s in Newcastle upon Tyne, said: ‘For Christians the image of Jesus is very special and to interpret it in a sexualised way is an affront to what we hold dear.’
The Baltic said yesterday that it had yet to receive a copy of the summons.
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