Private Eye Funny Old World
“You may refer to what you were doing as an act of worship,” Presiding Magistrate Jacob Sareng told fourteen members of the Dabsau cult in Madang District Court, “but I call it an act of disgusting gross indecency. Taking your clothes off and playing with each other’s shameful parts has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with indecent exposure and behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace. I therefore find you all guilty, and fine each of you K50.”
Earlier, police station commander Inspector Jimmy Namora had told the court what he had discovered when he began investigating the activities of the Dabsau cult. “There are about two hundred followers, led by a man who calls himself ‘Black Jesus’. And although they claim to be a cultural and religious group, their activities mostly involve looking at each other’s genitals and making sculptures of them. Any man or woman who enters the Dabsau Culture Centre is required to remove all their clothing, else they will not be allowed in. They must then go the altar, where ‘Black Jesus’ is, and play with his penis until he says that they have passed the test. Then they pair off and play with each other’s private parts as they work on sculptures of each other. They are quite open about what they do, and nobody has complained of anything having happened against their%2
