Okay, so I never really was over-the-top about Madonna’s music. I always liked her as a person but never was drawn to her music, except for a few songs here and there. With all the controversy over The Confessions Tour, I had to check it out. I Tivo’d it last fall but only now just sat down and watched it. From the first frame on, I knew it was gonna be hot. What a performance!

I can see why various religious groups would’ve gotten themselves worked up into a tizzy over it, but really. As you watch the concert (and there is a lot to see) she is telling a story with sight, sound and emotion and it was well done. Hip, modern, edgy and not the least bit blasphemous, as some have called it. Apparently she even invited the Pope to a performance and he declined. His loss — on many levels! With so many young people leaving the church because of its archaic ways, what a missed opportunity for him to have been seen as hip and with the times, giving young Christians a new perspective. But alas that is not Ratzinger’s way.

Madonna has put ‘Queer As Folk’s’ Babylon to shame! She totally outdid herself with a show that was more like a huge dance party. It was flawless with perfect music, perfect storytelling, perfect choreography, perfect lighting, perfect bodies… perfect, perfect, perfect! I do now confess, that like most of my gay brothers, I too now worship at the shrine of Madonna.