An archbishop in Mexico has asked a local state governor to cancel a Marilyn Manson rock concert scheduled for August 10, claiming that it can “take to situations of evil”. Source: Crux.
Archbishop Jorge Cavazos Arizpe of San Luis Potosi, a city with more than 800,000 residents, told journalists last week that he had sent a letter to Governor Ricardo Gallardo Cardona asking him to cancel the concert.
“Yes, I have sent a letter about it to the governor asking him exactly, for the society’s sake and the sake of all Christians, [the concert’s suspension],” the archbishop said.
Archbishop Cavazos claimed that the concert “does not bring fraternity nor joy” and involves mockery of the Catholic faith and creeds.
“I don’t know that person [Manson], only in a general way. But if we understand that situations of evil can be caused, as a Church – united with our Lord Jesus – we cannot promote any kind of insinuation of evil. We have to attack all situations,” he added.
Manson’s concert will be part of Potosi’s annual National Fair, which will take place between August 8-31.
Archbishop Cavazos emphasised that the fair was originally a religious celebration in honour of St Louis, the city’s – and the state’s – patron saint.
Governor Gallardo told the local newspaper El Universal de Potosí that the concert will happen.
“We’re not anymore in the time of the Holy Inquisition to forbid artistic expressions,” he said.
Marilyn Manson, whose birth name is Brian Warner, began his career in Florida in 1989. Each member of his original band chose a stage name formed by the first name of a US sex symbol and the last name of a serial killer. Warner decided to allude to Marilyn Monroe and to the convicted cult leader and murderer Charles Manson.
Since the beginning, his industrial metal concerts were notorious for the presence of bizarre elements, like the guts of dead animals and women in crosses, as well as references to Satanism and the desecration of Christian symbols.
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Archbishop demands suspension of Marilyn Manson’s concert in Mexico (By Eduardo Campos Lima, Crux)
