Posted on 11/30/2010 1:00:02 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
The Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery is under fire for hosting an exhibit that is filled with homoerotic art, an image of Ellen DeGeneres grabbing her breasts and a video of Jesus on a crucifix covered in ants, outraging conservative leaders and prompting some Republican lawmakers to call for a congressional investigation.
“Absolutely we should look at their funds,” Georgia Rep. Jack Kingston, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, told Fox News.
“If they’ve got money to squander like this – of a crucifix being eaten by ants, of Ellen DeGeneres grabbing her breasts, men in chains, naked brothers kissing – then I think we should look at their budget.”
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Cut off 100% of NEA, NPR, PBS funding. 100% of it. All done, let Soros and the Commies fund their filth.
Any Krap Kovered Koran’s?
Or are these so-called ‘artists’ total wimp-ass cowards?
....out of equity and fairness, where is the fecal/excremental mohammed?
Oh I forgot, we can mock Christ, but the butt fairy, the murderous sob is out of reach!
Greatly reduce funding for the National Portrait Gallery until they fire those responsible (beginning with the curator) for this travesty.
Probably not, but I left a mohammed in the toilet yesterday.
“Or are these so-called ‘artists’ total wimp-ass cowards?”
YES.
Yes to the second item in your post.
Bobby Jindal for President, 2012!
Good on the congressman willing to speak out on this .
It is not like anyone has been threatened but enough is enough.
Chit all over our beliefs and kiss muslim ass? I don’t think so
So now we have a school who has not only removed all mention of Christmas but also the colors red and green
Lefists want to call this the winter holiday
BUT our money goes to demeaning Jesus and that is ok?
Cut them off and anything else hanging low/
And not one of these “edgy” paint splashers is inspired to depict Mohammed being eaten by pigs or buzzards. They are only moved to pick on Jesus and His followers. The administrators of this offensive exhibit apparently aren’t willing to risk beheadings for the “artistic expression” that would offend Muslims.
Why do no democrats care about this?
Such artists and their sychophants like to think of themselves as avant garde. In fact, this stuff is stale, trite, boring, cliched, derivative, and just plain bad.
The same government that cannot fund exhibition of the 10 commandments or a reverential image of Jesus cannot mock religion in this manner.
It all fits under the Establishment clause.
The ACLU is merely antiChristian and lets these violations go unchallenged (or even supported).
“Why do no democrats care about this?”
Excellent question. Perhaps they’re all in favor of it.
If a pastor in Florida wants to make a piece of art called “barbecued koran” the State Department and White House and even a Supreme Court judge tell him that he may not.
Meanwhile the Saudi government regularly burns the seized forbidden texts of non-Islamic faiths and there is no outcry from our Government.
Barack Obama is pro-Islamist and never rises to defend Christianity.
Regardless of who paid, or didn’t pay, for those specific works of art, taxpayers are paying and have paid for the National Portrait Gallery since the 1836, when the building was constructed as the Patent Office. It has been an art museum since the 60s. Within the last ten years taxpayers provided $30 million to renovate the building and its surroundings. We and our ancestors have paid thru the nose for the privilege of having our religion insulted and disparaged by third-rate artists on government property.
“Why do no democrats care about this”?
...because they’re Godless. And this pleases their Godless base.
i’m sure the Smithsonian will soon have an taxpayer funded exhibit of the prophet mohammed sodomizing his nine year old wife....
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