Woman with crowbar destroys blasphemous 'art'

Catholic Culture ^ | Oct. 8, 2010 | Staff

[La Enchiladita]

A Montana woman faces criminal charges after she used a crowbar to destroy a blasphemous exhibit at a gallery in Colorado.

Kathleen Folden was arrested after she smashed an exhibit that depicted Jesus in a lewd act. The exhibit, by artist Enrique Chagoya of Stanford University, had caused outrage among Christians.

[Soothesayer]

The left will refer to her as a terrorist.

Meanwhile, Muslims are slaughtering entire families whenever someone draws a picture of Mad Moe. Not a word from the left about that.

[RandallFlagg]

Was her maiden name Freeman?

[goseminoles]

“She wouldn?t spend a minute in jail if I was on the jury This was a deliberate provocation, in my opinion”

I understand your point, but we don’t go around smashing things we disagree with. Would make for a pretty crappy society.

[ozidar]

No, she was destroying private property.

[SoftwareEngineer]

Agree with her emotion but NOT with her action.....

We should never fall to the level of barbarians....

[murdoog]

We may now... finally... be entering an era in which Christians are willing to fight back

All thanks to those who had a hissy fit over Terry Jones burning the Koran, and sending the message that we have more respect for the sensibilities of those who respond violently.

[cherry]

if we all just had this gumption and the righteous indignation...

[Bitsy]

God bless her. We should take her lead when we see these offensive pieces of cr@p by untalented artists hanging in galleries. God will not be mocked!

[Mr. K]

This is a “you have freedom of speech except you can’t yell ‘fire’ in a crowded theatre” issue in my opinion.

Imagine if she was a muzzie and was atacking a koran in a jar of urine? I bet she would be the next democrap hero

[Terry Mross]

Sounds to me like a “freedom of speech” response to a “freedom of speech” exhibit.

[poobear]

At least she didn’t behead the artist and threaten his/her family!

[GonzoGOP]

A Montana woman faces criminal charges after she used a crowbar to destroy a blasphemous exhibit at a gallery in Colorado.

This is just wrong and there is no excuse for it. You can't just grab the first blurt object that comes to hand and go in swinging. She definitely should have used a chain saw or at least an axe. Or possibly a katana, can't beat those for grace, style and blasphemy destroying potential. There is a zen like quality about using a beautiful art like weapon to destroy crap. But a crowbar, whats with that. If you are going to destroy blasphemous art you need to do it right.

[Moleman]

YES!!!! Good for her!!!

[Nachum]

Look- this is PERFORMANCE ART.

[equalitybeforethelaw]

She should have used a car bomb. That is accepted political speech to the libtards. Crowbars are so declasse to the elite.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

I wish I had enough money to pay for her defense.

[La Enchiladita]

Well, she has done the deed, like her method or not.
The artist doesn’t respect our Jesus, so Kathleen dis-respected him right back.
Sometimes, it’s better to take care of the problem quickly than to let it drag out.
Think of surgery.
Words were having no effect but to feed into the ‘artist’s’ sick vision.
Kathleen restored health and I praise her for it.

[WAW]

Need to call what she did “performance art” so it can be protected speech.

[a fool in paradise]

It was a computer printout of an artwork. Like looking at a framed photocopy.

The destruction was vandalism. The exhibit was unconstitutionally funded by taxpayers (the same violation there would be of funding PRO-Christian artwork).

[a fool in paradise]

The media was not so positive of the accounts of those who vandalized the “replacement” cross when a court ordered one removed from view (can’t recall the specifics anymore of whether it was formerly public land that had been purchased).