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Kevin Smith Once Joined a Protest Against His Own Movie, and the Video Is Hilarious

After Dogma drew religious backlash and protests, Smith quietly joined one in New Jersey and criticized his own movie on camera.

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Kevin Smith’s 1999 comedy Dogma was controversial before anyone got a chance to see it on the big screen. The film, starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, tells the story of two fallen angels who devise a plan to return to Heaven by exploiting a loophole in Catholic dogma. Though Smith has always insisted that the movie was made with reverent intent, not everyone interpreted it that way. The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, for example, denounced Dogma as “blasphemy” after getting their hands on an early........

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