[RegulatorCountry]

"Take some elephant dung and throw it on Jesus's mom a la Chris Ofili's "The Holy Virgin Mary" or put a crucifix in a glass of urine as Andres Serrano did for his "Piss Christ" photograph and the battle lines are drawn."

Ah, yes, I do recall the horrible rioting, burning and killing by Christians that ensued as a result of these two fine examples of "art" being foisted upon gullible, leftist art aficionados.

[livius]

The reason there was so much public expression of outrage (D'Amato, et al.) about those two anti-Christian works is that they were either exhibited or created with contributions from public money, something that author neglects to mention. Even so, we didn't threaten to cut off the head of the director of the National Endowment for the Humanities...