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OK, concentrate: Jesus forgives the sins, you forgive the trespasses. Mel sues people attempting to spread The Word to a wider audience

In the wake of newly minted evangelist Mel Gibsons much publicized forgiveness of people who forced him to fantasize their disembowelment by disagreeing with him, we discover that he's not quite such a mensch (ask Jesus, Mel, He speaks jewish) when it looks as if his holy crusade might lose some fraction of the hundreds of millions in personal profits he stands to gain by it.

Hollywood star Mel Gibson's company has sued a movie post-production firm where workers reputedly made pirate copies of his hit movie "The Passion of the Christ," court documents showed yesterday.

Mr. Gibson's production company, Icon Distribution, charged that Lightning Media Inc. is responsible for the action of three employees who last month were charged by prosecutors with copying the films at the facility.

In the suit filed in Los Angeles, Icon is seeking more than $150,000 in damages and an order barring the post-production company and its employees from copying or distributing the controversial "Passion."

As the Gospels tell us, Jesus had very strong feelings about property rights (see Ann Coulter's "They'll have to pry the loaves and fishes out of my cold dead hands: Jesus and the role of automatic weapons in fast food market protection")

In other Mel news, Steve Martin points out a small problem with the script: "In the description of the bystanders, there should be a space between the words 'Jew' and 'boy'"