Officials: Museum art display is Christianity-bashing'

Officials are asking the Brooklyn Museum not to show a film depicting ants crawling on a crucifix.

The letter from Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro and six others to museum Director Arnold Lehman objects to a work called "A Fire in My Belly" by the late David Wojnarowicz.

They call it "Christianity-bashing."

It's among 100 pieces in a show that opens Friday. Its title is: "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture."

The exhibition explores gender and sexual identity in American art.

The film was pulled from the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., when the exhibition was shown there last year.

The museum said it encourages anyone with concerns about the work to view it in person.