Ever wonder what you’d get when you take Easter, a sacred Christian holiday, and mix in a little San Francisco? Well you get the Hunky Jesus competition of course! Complete story here.
San Franciscans have flocked to Dolores Park in the city to compete in, or watch, what has become an Easter Sunday tradition – the “Hunky Jesus” competition.
Officiated by a gay charity group known as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, which has been active in San Francisco since 1979, the contest pits costumed and usually scantily clad men against each other for the distinction of being declared the most attractive Jesus.
This year there were several entrants such as Double-Cross Jesus, Hula-Jesus, 2nd Coming Jesus, Hunky Chessus, and Michael Angelo Jesus. The Hunky Pope even paid a visit :)
Needless to say, the Catholic community was not pleased, calling the event blasphemous. But the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence say that it’s a harmless pageant meant to “promote universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt”.
You can judge for yourself by watching some clips from this year’s show!
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Stories like these always remind me of a certain Onion story.
If one watches this objectively, it’s not significantly different from the plethora of public swimsuit competitions. The only added piece is the ‘blasphemy’ element. Of course this serves to confirm the fears of many reactionaries, who equate lack of religion with immorality (which they incorrectly consider homosexuality to be).
Unfortunately the video ain’t working for me (it says video not available) but I really enjoyed the post anyway. Living in a super catholic country (Malta) and hearing way too much about jesus recently (even on non religious media), I came to find some solace in religiousfreaks.com. I wasn’t disappointed. I hadn’t checked the site in a while. I’m glad I came. You managed to put a smile on my face again. That bloody twat who wore a robe and sandals and walked around doing nothing productive but preaching love and peace (what nowadays we’d call a hippie/freak/lazy-arse etc) just makes my blood boil! Sometimes I wonder if anyone will celebrate my death (and resurrection!?) 2000 years after I shove off this mortal coil!
Hi Chris! Glad to see someone from Malta visiting my site. I was actually in Malta back in ’95 when I was stationed aboard the USS Kearsarge as a Marine. It’s a very beautiful country and I had some great times there ;)
I’m sorry you can’t see the video, but it appears to be working for me :(
Anywho… glad you chimed in!
The video’s working now. Glad to talk to you. I’ve been a fan of your ‘one man’s quest against religion’ for a long time but I think I’ve always been too lazy to write! Yeah, Malta’s a beautiful country: sea, sun, nice girls and all that but as you know there’s a church on every street corner! When I was younger I used to think that common sense would prevail and the upcoming generation would make religion go away. How wrong I was! Although church attendance has reduced drastically on normal weekdays in times like easter you see how strong it actually still is because everyone goes back, even the young generation. Everyone seems to believe in god. Maybe the fact that Religious Studies (read Roman Catholic doctrine) is still a subject taught in all Maltese schools has something to do with it (even though personally I see turning something which should be one’s own belief into an academic subject which you can sit exams and get grades for as utterly bizarre).
You gotta love gay guys, I just think they’re fabulous. We need a “Virgin” Mary contest too.
“Maybe the fact that Religious Studies (read Roman Catholic doctrine) is still a subject taught in all Maltese schools has something to do with it (even though personally I see turning something which should be one’s own belief into an academic subject which you can sit exams and get grades for as utterly bizarre).”
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REPUBLIC OF MALTA
GRADUATING STUDENT EXAMINATION
SECTION VII
ANALOGIES
Choose the analogy that best fits the given example.
Transubstantiation : Consubstantiation
(a) Feline : Cat
(b) Happy : Cheerful
(c) White : Grey
(d) Divine light of God : Dirty heresy
Awwww . . . I thought Double-Cross Jesus would win, or maybe Hula Jesus (as close to Surfer Jesus as they got this year, apparently). Oh, well; maybe if I were gay I would’ve had better predictive validity.
So the Catholics called it blasphemous? You know, if they would start calling pedophilic priests blasphemous, they would have something I could agree with . . . but, of course, that doesn’t seem to bother them as much as a costume contest.
Oh Kurt, no matter who gets the prize, we all win.
How true, Irish, how true. I shouldn’t let my cynicism mar a fun and entertaining display.
Why not hunky Mohammed or a mud wrestling contest between hunky jesus and hunky mohammed?
. . . with a hunky buddha to referee . . .
Well, maybe for the chubby chasers out there ;)
blasphemous. where is their(gays) compassion towards us Christians. is it fair to judge all gays as having no compassion?
Guys, if the point is to attack Christians, why do they attack the ONE who came to save all us sinners, who is Christ Jesus alone!
password, let us raise our kids in the truth and the life who is Christ Jesus alone.
let us all not make the same mistake these gays and that family that kept their child from receiving medical help.
we all point to the people who do stupid things in the name of self…
But, if we look to the truth in G-d, who is Christ Jesus,He will set you free from your sins and see the truth that you see in all people, that we are sinners and there is not one who is righteous.
“where is their(gays) compassion towards us Christians.”
They probably have had trouble finding compassion ever since christians started telling them they are going to hell and making rash, cruel, and false generalizations about them.
“But, if we look to the truth in G-d, who is Christ Jesus,He will set you free from your sins and see the truth that you see in all people, that we are sinners and there is not one who is righteous.”
Mmmmm….I love me some random, general, and downright cryptic religious ranting.
Who set up the standards according which you are to show homage to Jesus and what not to do?
And what does compassion have to do with the hunky Jesus competition?
Or is someone objecting the charity of gays? Is their charity somehow less than other charities?
Are community service, human rights and spiritual enlightenment issues that Jesus opposed?
thanks for the response password gang. that’s all. i just don’t understand.
Hyrocket–
It was all in fun, to raise money for commuinty-based programs. Kind of like a church bake sale, but with better fashion sense. I don’t get where you are coming from on the “compassion” thing. . . I thought community service (which is driven by empathy, the basis of all morality) involved a large dose of compassion. And I don’t see it as an “attack” on Christians at all, or a gay-bashes-the-straights thing either . . . after all, “Redneck Jesus” was a straight guy. If they wanted to attack Christianity on Easter, they could’ve gone back to the various pagan Spring rites which the Catholic Church co-opted for their own needs.
Have you seen the atheism and homosexuality articles at Conservapedia?
I don’t think that people with “San Francisco Values” are fond of the articles and they certainly cannot refute them.
Here are the articles:
http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism
http://www.conservapedia.com/Homosexuality
David, there’s no need to refute ANYTHING claimed on conservapedia. Why? because it’s conservapedia. Nice try though, not really.
You mean conservative Christian Americans don’t have nice things to say about groups they hate and fear? I’m shocked. Conservapedia is the Fox News of internet encyclopedias; lite on fact, heavy on opinion. Though, like Fox News, it does a decent job of putting up a facade of legitimacy, just enough to convince those who want to be convinced.
I read through some of the article on atheism and it is the worst case of one-sided reporting. It selectively sites articles to associate atheism with as many bad things as possible while ignoring the empirically negative correlation between the health of a society and it’s level of religion. A perfect example of this is the statement “Moral depravity has been demonstrated in the atheist community through history and through various studies.[61][62][63][64]“. Three references were religious publications and the other had nothing to do with moral depravity. Conservapedia engages in selective and misleading citation. After the modern citations, it then cites numerous insulting Bible verses which, when viewed objectively, are opinions and not facts.
Conservapedia is a great place for those who place low value on objective truth and high value on insulating themselves in their own opinion. Conservapedia removes all entries and edits that are viewed as ‘liberal’. Why is it so afraid of dissenting opinion?
sid, I’m going to have to disagree with you. Fox News has far more credibility than Conservapedia. Fox News I regard as merely entertainment television, and they find that near-comical right-wing populism gives them better ratings. Conservapedia, on the other hand…I don’t think I can mentally contemplate the idea that anyone could take it to be anything other than parody.
If the article on atheism I read there had been turned into me when I was teaching, it would’ve gotten a *very* poor grade; then again, so would the Meese Commission Report on Pornography, and a great many other bits of “research” put out by subjectivist organizations.
…regardless of whether or not it’s blasphemous, it’s just plain disrespectful. Even if you remove religion from the picture, the “pageant” is just plain rude >_<
I wouldn’t support a “beautiful Buddha” competition, either xP
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