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At 1950s-era "Pontius Pilate High" in Corpus Christi, Texas--the town where McNally grew up--Joshua is bullied into playing football and taunted by his peers as a "faggot."
Jesus' Pilate is a windbag who adds: "Where there is truth, there will be no peace.
John's Pilate epigrammatically offers the cynical question, "What is truth?"
Pilate, who was in real life so cruel that the Roman authorities had to remove him from the procuratorship of Judea, is, in Jesus' account of things, the detached Gentile observer who believes that the "King of the Jews" has done no wrong, and should be released.
(The real Pilate crucified 2,000 Pharisees in a single day.)