Blasphemy

It is a story which took place two weeks ago in a town named Saint Amand sur Cher at the time of the wine trade fair (foire aux vins) where people can sample and buy wines from France and particularly from our region. For this event, the organizers had asked a painter to paint a fresco to put in the hall.
The painter painted the following fresco (which measures several metres):

(Photograph scanned from a newspaper (not very good definition - in colour, it would be better)

The characters have a rather red coloured complexion, including the priest and the altar boy! The woman who is kneeling down is rather provocative with a very low-cut dress in front of a chalice. The priest is blessing the woman.

But what had happened?

The parish priest of Saint Amand vigorously protested against the organizers because to him it is blasphemy to represent a woman in front of a chalice with characters who seem to be inebriated! A heated argument ensued between the organizers, the clergy, the local politicians, the newspapers, the believers, the atheists…
Finally, the organisers asked the painter to modify his fresco… but he refused …So as to solve the problem, for the sake of peace, the organizers have hidden the right part of the fresco with paper. Only the four characters on the left remain!!!

This reminds me of recent fact…Is it an arrangement or a censorship? Everybody can think what he or she likes.

Claude.