“cutting off the spigot of talented artists in training isn’t going to improve the U.S. economy one whit.”
Perhaps. But cutting off the flow of the taxpayers’ money now being wasted on all that “intellectual falseness” won’t hurt the economy, either. It’s not a matter of censorship — if an ‘artist’ wants to mock Christianity, by all means go for it. But why should the citizenry be forced to subsidize his ‘statement’?
Aren't any. Draftsmen maybe. It is known that talent for musical instruments correlates with talent for mathematics, but that isn't being an artist.