On Point Legal News – January 28, 2009:
Following in the footsteps of various figures of ridicule in “Borat,” an Orlando, Fla., preacher has sued the distributor of “Religulous” for inducing him to appear in the Bill Maher documentary under false pretenses.
Rev. Jeremiah Cummings’ $50 million lawsuit against Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) -– which even alleges “racial profiling” — is the first to be filed over “Religulous” since its release in October. The producers, he says, told him he had been chosen to appear in a PBS documentary called “A Spiritual Journey.”
Among other things, Maher pokes fun at Cummings’ expensive suit and lizard shoes, contrasting his attire with the humility of Jesus. The minister stutters when Maher challenges him in an on-camera interview with the Biblical quotation, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
“I am made to appear to be some money hungry preacher, which is the typical stereotype of black preachers,”
This bit from I’m Gonna Git You Sucka seems appropriate (NSFW):
