Posted on 10/02/2010 8:00:39 PM PDT by Sergeant Tim
The 9 News link came to me via my Google alert for 'September 11'. As you will see, the museum also contains a gallery on that subject.
In a city-owned museum in Loveland, Colorado, where school children often make field trips, there is a 12-panel lithograph entitled "The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals" which the artist defends and the city refuses to remove. Not everyone there is amused.
"It depicts clearly a picture of our Lord Jesus Christ engaging in an oral sex act with another person," says Deacon Ed Armijo of St. John's The Evangelist Catholic Church. Deacon Armijo and several members of the community went to the gallery to voice their opposition to the exhibit.The exhibit has raised a question society and the legal system have wrestled with for years: When does art go too far?
"I think people need to come in and see it for themselves. It is hard to take one piece in isolation. It is in the context of an exhibit and this one particular piece is not a stand alone piece," says Susan Ison, cultural services director for the City of Loveland.
I Googled the work's title and found it online. It is far sicker and more disgusting than the article describes. The second panel appears to have the cut off head of a soldier in a basket along with other "fruits," in keeping with the sexual theme. The fourth panel appears to portray...
(Excerpt) Read more at 911familiesforamerica.org ...
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Bad wall art - the other reason why flame throwers were invented.
This is more than gross, it’s evil. I believe in freedom of speech and expression, but there’s no artistic justification for anything like this. And it’s being displayed on government property! Can the museum’s board be impeached?
The end is near, Glory Be To God!
Having looked at the picture I am trying to figure why a library would even display it. Wouldn’t it be better in an art museum? By the way it is a horrible piece of work.
What city official in Loveland wants to defend displaying porno in a city-owned museum where school children are brought?
It’s just a picture. An artist’s depictions mean nothing, other than entertainment.
It’s not like we worship an ‘image’. That is forbidden in the Bible. Might as well worship a golden calf, or a drawing of Mohammed if one is going to get worked up about some art they have a choice to ignore.
What is Michael Newdow doing about this church and state thing? I thought he stood for total separation of church and state.
Mark
I’m shocked and heartsick that such evil is allowed to flourish with no action taken against it.
“Christophobes!” (There. That should stop it all.)
LOL
It is in a museum (a city owned museum) not a library
Oh. I have no idea why I thought it was in a library. Well, then. It is a terrible piece of work regardless.
The one of Mohammed with the whorehouse pigs is pretty funny.
Notify the local Mosque and Imam about this one, and the exhibit will be shut down immediately.
Also, the artist may lose his head.
Christians know that a stupid cartoon or a supposed “artwork” can’t influence our belief in Him. It’s in stark contrast to how these Mohammedans respond to anything about their pedophile prophet, Muhammed. They’re pathetic.
Smile. You have First Amendment rights, too. At least for the time being.
Instead of crying and moaning about other people’s free expression and demanding to have it taken down, why not pick up your own paintbrush?
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