Sweet Jesus! Chocolate Christ art exhibit canceled after Catholics protest

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A New York hotel has canceled an exhibit of a giant naked chocolate Jesus, the AP reported.

The Catholic League or Religious and Civil Rights had called for a boycott of the hotel, which had planned the event to correspond with Holy Week.

The hotel canceled the showing, and issued a statement saying the threat was "crystal clear and has brought to our attention the unintended reaction of you and other conscientious friends of ours to the exhibition of Cosimo Cavallaro.... We have caused the cancellation of the exhibition and wish to affirm the dignity and responsibility of the hotel in all its affairs," the statement said.

The director of the art gallery that was to set up the display admitted the hotel did not know the chocolate Christ was to be exhibited, but said the artwork was not irreverent.

"It's intended as a meditation on the Holy Week," Matthew Semler said of the sculpture.

The news report says the artwork is called "My Sweet Lord," but the artist's website lists its title as "I did it daddy."

Image: "I did it daddy," from the artist's website.

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