A Presbyterian's Pornographic Passion

The Passion of Jesus Christ is pornographic. At least Kay Campbell of the liberal website "Red Letter Christians" seems to imply so when complaining how “images of the bloody and beaten Christ proliferate.” The Rev. Campbell is Faith & Values editor and reporter at "The Huntsville (Alabama) Times" and an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA).   Was the Passion pornographic?

"I know there are Christians who find instruction in the violence of the cross, an excruciating sort of inspiration in the pornographic lacerations laid on the shoulders of the carved or painted Christ or the tortured actor in Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion of the Christ,’” Campbell observed in a recent Easter time article. “These Christians tell me those scenes help them appreciate their own sinfulness more seriously and the deep love of Christ more fully.”