It is often hard for me to put myself in the shoes of these KIND OF PEOPLE. Their ability to shutdown rational thought and all regard for reality. In this case I can’t even figure out what the problem is. The point of Christianity was Christ suffering on the cross so they can all get a free ride to Heaven. The big hit movie by Mel Gibson presented that suffering in more horrific Hollywood blood and gore than Wojnarowicz even thought of doing. I even have to question why would anyone think there had been no ants at Golgotha climbing all over that vast roadway of crucified corpses? I can’t seem to grab the SENSE of this. But then again I am not the KIND OF PERSON who hates people for their chance of birth. That is GOP territory which is what makes them so popular!
I suppose Frank Rich is correct in his spin that this isn’t about religion at all, but Republicans expressing their homophobia. Anything from homos is wrong. Republican champions of the 1st Amendment, shutting down privately sponsored art, closing down WikiLeaks and throwing Assange in jail for the rest of his life. I used to call this website CONSERATIVELY INCORRECT which no one understood or has even been written by any other hand but mine in 20 years. Too conclicapated for American minds? Or is it one of those things that just so obvious it goes without saying? Conservative Correctness
I single out Eric Cantor here because not only were his words the ones that did this artwork in by his public denunciation to shut down all funding for the Smithsonian, but because he is also Jewish and one of those MODERATE Republicans! Jewish Moderate Republicans censoring gay art at the Smithsonian. Wow, how far we have come in just 2 years. We deserve Sarah Palin in the White House, real art is a dead moose on the wall.
Gay Bashing at the Smithsonian
By FRANK RICH
Like many of its antecedents, the war over Wojnarowicz is a completely manufactured piece of theater. What triggered the abrupt uproar was an incendiary Nov. 29 post on a conservative Web site. The post was immediately and opportunistically seized upon by William Donohue, of the so-called Catholic League, a right-wing publicity mill with no official or financial connection to the Catholic Church.
Donohue is best known for defending Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitism by declaring that “Hollywood is controlled by Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular.” A perennial critic of all news media except Fox, he has also accused The Times of anti-Catholicism because it investigated the church pedophilia scandal. Donohue maintains the church doesn’t have a “pedophilia crisis” but a “homosexual crisis.” Such is the bully that the Smithsonian surrendered to without a fight.
But of course Donohue was just using his “religious” objections as a perfunctory cover for the homophobia actually driving his complaint. The truth popped out of the closet as Donohue expanded his indictment to “promographic images of gay men.” His Republican Congressional allies got into the act. Eric Cantor called for the entire exhibit to be shut down and threatened to maim the Smithsonian’s taxpayer funding come January.