What if Mel Gibson were a porn star?

I'm sure actor Mel Gibson is relieved, and I'm glad.

Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of The Anti-Defamation League, has accepted Gibson's apology for railing about Jews during his recent drunk driving arrest. Foxman magnanimously said:

''This is the apology we had sought and requested. We are glad that Mel Gibson has finally owned up to the fact that he made anti-Semitic remarks, and his apology sounds sincere. We welcome his efforts to repair the damage he has caused, to reach out to the Jewish community, and to seek help.''

Then, speaking like someone who really knows about weakness, Foxman generously adds that once Gibson gets the alcohol under control, ''we will be ready and willing to help him with his second rehabilitation to combat this disease of prejudice.''

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Now, that is touching, really touching!

But who will rehabilitate the ADL for its ''disease?'' The disease of aiding and abetting in the spread of hatred of women and children; a disease that creeps across our nation day-by-day?

Who, if not pornographers, has been spreading the disease of sexual pathology to our most vulnerable and innocent children for decades?

And, who legitimizes, encourages, and patronizes pornographic hate mongers, giving them credibility and honor?

Mel Gibson? Or Foxman and his Anti-Defamation League?

Despite his money and success, Mel Gibson nearly killed himself and others in a drunken-driving spree.

Tragic I'd say.

As a public figure, and one of obvious deep religious beliefs, it's good Gibson apologized for his abusive remarks. We all hope he can somehow get that demon rum off his back.

But while Gibson is not ever required to like all Jews, why do Foxman and the ADL refuse to apologize for loving pornographic hate mongers?

Without even blushing, the hypocritical Anti-Defamation League recently gave U.S. Ambassador John Miller the same ''Torch of Freedom Award'' for battling ''trafficking in human persons,'' that they gave to Hugh Hefner, whose Playboy empire led the traffic in human persons from December 1953 to today. Not to be outdone, the ADL awarded Christie Hefner – the expensively clothed ''madame'' of daddy's pornography palace – a ''Champion of Freedom Award.''

What champs, all.

Stepping aside a bit, when I was in Israel researching the Israeli mass media, my aide and I went to the Anti-Defamation League in Jerusalem with samples of rape and torture magazine photos being broadcast throughout the nation. As I laid out page after page of full-color sadomasochistic images of women used to advertise various products, the ADL director could barely stifle his yawn.

Many of the worst images were in the publication ''Monitin,'' a mix of ''Playboy'' and ''Life,'' a high-gloss monthly for the Israeli upper-crust, boasting a cadre of respected Israeli writers. Finally, I turned to the pages of a pseudo ''Holocaust pornography'' photo essay. The background included a huge old World War II oven, World War II cattle trains and women in sexy lingerie running from potential rapists/killers.

The ADL director suddenly awoke from his trance. ''Why, this is the Holocaust,'' he said. ''Monitin is exploiting the Holocaust!'' To sell lingerie!

Now he would call the publisher, ''a good friend of mine,'' to protest. I picked up my stack consisting of nearly one hundred rape and torture photo-adverts sold across the counters in every Kiosk in Israel, and said, ''No, thank you. You go yourself.''

''If you only understand the Holocaust when it shows up in standard Nazi, fascist images; if you can give succor to this brutalizing pornographic hate against Israeli women, children and society, we have nothing to say to one another,'' I replied.

''Israel has enough to battle without the ADL building up its domestic enemies,'' I added. He didn't understand what I meant.

Back in the USA: When the ADL apologizes for its continued support of pornographic hate mongers, for its support of anti-child, anti-women, anti Christian, and anti-American hatred, I'll be willing to help the ADL with its rehabilitation. And when the ADL gives awards to people who battle pornographic hate mongers, I'll show up to cheer.

Still, I suspect Gibson has a better chance for rehabilitation than does the ADL.

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