Hutton Gibson
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Hutton Gibson (born August 26, 1918) is the father of actor Mel Gibson and a writer on religion. He was born in Peekskill, New York, and served as a US Army Officer during World War II after graduation from an OCS program.
Following a victory on the Jeopardy! game show, Gibson moved his family to Australia in 1968 in protest against the Vietnam War and because he believed that changes in American society were immoral.
Gibson and his family, including his son Mel, have been alleged to be members of a "Catholic Traditionalist" Holy Family sect of the Catholic Church. While this is the name of the mission-style church built in Malibu, California, through Mel Gibson's contributions, many dispute its characterization as a sect due to its small size (about 70 members) and single place of worship. The congregation has procured the services of an Independent (Sedevacantist) priest, Fr. Louis Campbell. Another prominent member and collaborator of Mel's father in his fight against the Vatican II reforms is a Gary Giuffre.
Gibson, with most Traditionalists, deduces that the Second Vatican Council was a secret anti-Christian plot by both Masons and Jews.
More unusually, Gibson also holds to other theories, such as his claim that the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were not carried out by mostly Saudi Arabian Muslims onboard the plane, but rather were carried out by "remote control" by a different party.
Gibson denies commonly accepted aspects of the Jewish Holocaust, claiming that it is impossible for the Holocaust to have happened as described, since, in his view, there would be no way to get rid of so many bodies. He claims that "There weren't even that many Jews in all of Europe", and says that there were more Jews in Europe after World War II, statements disputed by almost all historians (charts of world Jewish population show a steep dip between the 1920s and the 1950s). In support of his father, Mel Gibson claims that his father's beliefs do not amount to Holocaust denial. (Mel Gibson says he will not speak out publicly against his father.)
He publishes a quarterly newsletter entitled The War is Now!
Books
- The Enemy is Here!
- Is the Pope Catholic?, 1978
External link
- snopes.com story about Mel Gibson and his father (http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/gibson.asp)