Free Republic

Washington is replete with idiots, but Senate Republicans seem to have the highest incidence of political idiocy in the entire capital.

Art or obscenity? A nude model is arrested at the Met August 27, 2009 Venus de Milo, Liberty leading the people, Lady Godiva ... and next? Nudity has been a staple of the visual arts since time began, but apparently the real thing is still too much for some people to handle. On Wednesday, a 26-year-old model was arrested in New York after posing for a photo shoot at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Police said Kathleen Neill was posing naked for a photographer in full view of visitors at a gallery in the museum's arms and armor department. Neill...

"Sexting" is a national activity of young girls of taking nude or seminude photographs of themselves, and sending them out using cell phones. The photos get widely distributed, leading to harm to the girls, and in one case, to a suicide. The ACLU has sued a local prosecutor, seeking a court ruling that "sexting" is free speech, and the prosecutor should cease acting against it.The facts for this article, but not its legal conclusions, come from an article on the MTV website on 27 March 2009. The article begins by discussing the phenomenon of "sexting," teenaged girls sending nude...

Monday March 2, 2009 Cherie Blair Says Catholic Church Sexist, Credits Personal Success to Contraception By Hilary White and John JalsevacLONDON, March 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Church "marginalizes" women and keeps them "virtually invisible" in its public face, says Cherie Blair. Speaking on a BBC television program, the wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair said that "ambivalence" towards women is a "fundamental weakness" of Christianity and of Catholicism in particular. The controversial remarks were made during the final installment of a documentary, Christianity, that was aired on BBC's Channel 4 on Sunday night. During a section of...

<p>British Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife posed naked for the artist Euan Uglow when she was an unknown lawyer-in-training in her mid-20s.</p> <p>For more than a year Cherie Booth earned £5 an hour modeling for the 5-foot painting "Striding Nude, Blue Dress," wearing a sleeveless dress open at the front. She was required to stand still for up to an hour at a time in Uglow’s freezing studios in Clapham, South London. The artist later painted a second version with another model.</p>