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It angered Catholics before an April exhibit was canceled, but a Chocolate Jesus is being resurrected at a New York Art Gallery.

The six-foot milk chocolate sculpture titled “My Sweet Lord” depicts a nude, anatomically correct Jesus Christ hanging from an invisible cross. It will be flanked by a set of chocolate Catholic icons, including the Virgin Mary and half a dozen saints when the exhibit opens later this month.

The original exhibit had been scheduled to open four days before Good Friday, when Christians mark Christ’s crucifixion. That prompted an outcry and even death threats directed at the artist who created it.

But Cosimo Cavallaro says he also got a lot of positive mail from Catholics and theologians, and even people in monasteries. Saying “there is nothing offensive about this,” Cavallaro predicts a better reception this time around.

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A Pennsylvania woman who unleashed a string of expletives at her clogged toilet faces possible jail time and a fine for mouthing off in her home, police said.

Dawn Herb, whose potty mouth caught the ear of an off-duty police officer, was charged with disorderly conduct, prompting her to vow to fight the charge in a letter to the editor she wrote to The (Scranton, Pa.) Times-Tribune, the newspaper reported Tuesday.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. soldier who said his Christian beliefs compelled him to love his enemies, not kill them, has been granted conscientious objector status and honorably discharged, a civil liberties group said on Tuesday.

Capt. Peter Brown — who served in Iraq for more than a year and was a graduate of the elite U.S. military academy West Point — said in a statement issued by the New York Civil Liberties Union that he was relieved the Army had recognized his beliefs made it impossible for him to serve.

“In following Jesus’ example, I could not have fired my weapon at another human being, even if he were shooting at me,” said Brown, who plans to continue seminary classes he began by correspondence while in Iraq.

While in Iraq, Brown processed insurgents and detainees, the NYCLU said.

Brown said he had no conflict between his faith and military service until after he graduated from West Point in 2004 and began to study scripture and his belief.

During his Iraq deployment he applied for discharge as a conscientious objector but the request was denied, the NYCLU said. In July 2007 the NYCLU and the American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal court in Washington, D.C., to order the honorable discharge.

“Before the court acted, the Army reconsidered the issue, this time granting Brown’s request,” said the NYCLU, adding it would now withdraw the lawsuit.

The U.S. Army was not immediately available for comment.

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