Hutton Gibson

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Hutton Peter Gibson (born August 26, 1918) is a writer on religion and a Holocaust denier most notable for being the father of actor Mel Gibson. He was born in Montclair, New Jersey and raised in Chicago, Illinois, the son of businessman John Hutton Gibson and Australian opera star Eva Mylott. He currently resides in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania,[1] after living many years in Texas and for a time in Summersville, West Virginia.[2]

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[edit] Early life

According to Wensley Clarkson's biography of Mel Gibson, Hutton studied for the priesthood in a Chicago seminary of the Society of the Divine Word. According to one friend of the family, he left the seminary on the eve of World War II, disgusted with the modernist theological doctrines (among them Teilhardinism) taught there, already more than twenty years before the start of the Second Vatican Council.

Hutton Gibson served as a US Army Officer in the Pacific Theater during World War II after his September 30, 1941 graduation from the U.S. Army Signal Corps OCS program at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. He was wounded in action at the Battle of Guadalcanal and invalided home in 1944.

He married Anne Reilly Gibson on May 1, 1944 at the Catholic parish of Our Lady of Good Counsel in Brooklyn, New York. They had ten children and adopted another one after their arrival in Australia. Anne died in 1990. Hutton has since remarried.

[edit] Jeopardy! and railroad lawsuit

Hutton Gibson claims to have won a substantial amount of money on the Art Fleming version of the Jeopardy! game show. After winning several thousand dollars on his first appearance, he reportedly won $21,000 at the Jeopardy! championship.[3] Episodes from this era of the show do not survive, so there may be no formal record of Gibson's appearance. The show currently considers 1965 Grand Champion Burns Cameron's cumulative total of $11,100 to be the Fleming-era record, a much smaller amount than the amount that Gibson claims.[4][5]

In the 1960s Gibson worked for New York Central Railroad. In the early morning hours of December 11, 1964 he slipped on some spilled oil and seriously injured his back. A work injury lawsuit followed and it finally went to court on February 7, 1968. Seven days later, on Valentine's Day, Gibson was awarded $145,000 by the jury. What remained of this money after paying off debts and lawyers was still a substantial sum, and with that he relocated his family to Australia that same year. One of the reasons he made this move was reportedly because he believed that changes in American society were immoral.[3] One of the reasons for the relocation may also have been the many changes in Church life already appearing in many American dioceses and parishes following Vatican II.

[edit] Move to Australia

After the promulgation of the reformed liturgy of Paul VI, the Gibson family home in Sydney, Australia was used as an inofficial chapel where the Tridentine Mass was offered. Also, Hutton used the house to store statues and altar relics which were being discarded in a rush of radical reform by Catholic parishes at the time.

Hutton was the secretary of the Latin Mass Society of Australia, but was ousted after becoming increasingly vocal about his belief that the See of Peter is vacant due to the Popes having allegedly embraced heresy (see Sedevacantism).

[edit] Notable beliefs

Hutton Gibson is a sedevacantist. His ideas, however, are rejected by many in the traditionalist Roman Catholic community. He believes that the Second Vatican Council introduced explicitly heretical doctrines into the Roman Catholic Church, and he believes that every Pope elected since Pope John XXIII have been illegitimate anti-popes. He has been especially critical of the late Pope John Paul II (whom he refers to as "Garrulous Karolus the Koran Kisser"). [6] He has also stated that the Second Vatican Council was the result of a secret anti-Catholic plot orchestrated by both Masons and Jews.[7]

Gibson adheres to the theory that the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were not carried out by Islamist terrorists aboard the planes, but rather by an unknown party using a "remote control".[8] He further believes that Jews want to take over the world and establish a one world religion and government.[9]

Hutton Gibson (left) with Holocaust denier Fredrick Töben, head of the Adelaide Institute of History, at the 2003 International Conference on Authentic History, Real News and the First Amendment.
Hutton Gibson (left) with Holocaust denier Fredrick Töben, head of the Adelaide Institute of History, at the 2003 International Conference on Authentic History, Real News and the First Amendment.

When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (prior to becoming Pope) stated that, although Judaism did not accept Jesus, it was nevertheless the "elder brother" of Christianity, Gibson observed that Abel also had an elder brother.[10]

He questions aspects of the Jewish Holocaust, especially the commonly accepted statistic that between five million to seven million Jews were killed, arguing that it would have been impossible for the Nazis to have disposed of so many bodies.[11] He further claims that most of the Holocaust was "fiction,"[11] that the thousands of Jews who disappeared from Poland during World War II "got up and left",[11] and that census statistics prove there were more Jews in Europe after World War II than before (a claim that is disputed by historians).[12] In support of his father, Mel Gibson claims that his father's beliefs do not amount to Holocaust denial. He also said: "My father never lied to me."[13]

Hutton Gibson publishes a quarterly newsletter called The War is Now! in which he details many of his views.

Hutton has been described as Anti-Semitic by his enemies and certain liberal media, because of his views on The Holocaust.

[edit] Local congregation support

Hutton Gibson has been trying to buy a suitable church building for a sedevacantist Catholic congregation called St. Michael the Archangel Roman Catholic Chapel. He and Mel have tried to buy land and a former Methodist church to turn them into a Roman Catholic center for the pre-Vatican II Latin Mass.[14][15] Rumours have been spreaded throughout and by the media that he and the Catholic priest of the congregation, the Rev. Fr. Leonard Bealko, are anti-Semitic. However critics of the group and of Fr. Bealko and Hutton, stated that, while being critical of them because of other reasons, they know nothing about any form of anti-Semitism prevailing among the group.[16]

[edit] Quotes

  • "We feel like hunted Christians in the catacombs - merely because we want to celebrate the Latin Rite which the [Roman] Church has used from time immemorial." Hutton speaking to his local newspaper in 1975 about what life was like for Traditionalist Catholics in the years immediately following Vatican II. Quoted in Wensley Clarkson's "Mel Gibson: Living Dangerously," page 43.
  • "The greatest benefit anyone can have is to be a Catholic. You have the lifelong satisfaction of being right. But we can't go to Mass, there are no sacraments and I feel cheated." Excerpted from Wensley Clarkson's "Mel Gibson: Living Dangerously," page 44.
  • "I entered the battle to preserve our faith actively in 1971, over heresy taught in religion classes in Australian Catholic schools. I soon read the decrees and documents of Vatican II, and branched out. I hate being robbed, especially by those charged with guarding the treasury." Quoted from a 1997 letter.[17]

[edit] Books

  • The Enemy is Here! - On the alleged subversion of the Catholic Church
  • Is the Pope Catholic? (1978) - Defending sedevacantism

[edit] References

  1. ^ Mel Gibson's Father Has Local Home, Church
  2. ^ Mel Gibson's Father Buys Home in West Virginia
  3. ^ a b Clarkson, Wensley (1999). Mel Gibson: Living Dangerously. Thunder's Mouth Press, 27-30. 
  4. ^ Burns Cameron: the first Jeopardy! superstar; triviahalloffame.com; September 2005
  5. ^ Eisenberg, Harry (1993). Inside "JEOPARDY!": What Really Goes on at TV's Top Quiz Show. Northwest Publishing, 271. ISBN 1-56901-177-X. 
  6. ^ Heinen, Tom. "Words of Mel's dad find a home", Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 23, 2004.
  7. ^ Giambalvo, Corrado. "Gibson's father: Holocaust was mostly 'fiction'", USA Today, 2004-02-20.
  8. ^ "Why Gibson's film provokes Passions", BBC News, August 26, 2003.
  9. ^ Giambalvo, Corrado. "Gibson's father: Holocaust was mostly 'fiction'", USA Today, 2004-02-20.
  10. ^ Mel Gibson's Meltdown; Christopher Hitchens; Slate; July 31, 2006
  11. ^ a b c Partial Transcript Of The Steve Feuerstein Radio Interview With Hutton Gibson; Movie City News; March 3, 2004
  12. ^ Halbfinger, David. "Mel Gibson Developing Holocaust Mini-Series", The New York Times, December 7, 2005.
  13. ^ Mel Gibson interview
  14. ^ Mel Gibson, dad back church
  15. ^ Hutton Gibson and Mel Gibson buying and building more churches for the Traditional Latin Mass, Roman Rite. "Hutton buying Greensburg area church for traditional Catholic services." Traditio.com commentaries.
  16. ^ Post Gazette Methodist church bid raises concern.
  17. ^ Comments on Vatican II

[edit] External links

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