[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

The point over the Piss piece and the Dung canvas was about public money and public support. My tax dollars should not be spent in those ways especially when courts demand that any positive image or expression of Christ -- say in a nativity scene -- should be banished from public buildings and never touch public funds. There is some major hypocrisy in the application of the First Amendment. Give me back my positive religious expression rights and then I'll shut up about the piss and dung nonsense. But it flatly is not fair that you can bash Jesus but you can't praise him.

No one that I can recall ever said that the "art" should be illegal to produce. And no one rioted over the issue.

[Blind Eye Jones]

"But it flatly is not fair that you can bash Jesus but you can't praise him."

Perfect!

[arthurus]

To a liberal that makes the oposite point. The government must support what ever liberals like or it is horrible and bloody suppression, NAZIlike in its effects. If Joe Blow says he doesn't want to give his money to people who insult him and his beliefs and preferences, that is also NAZI suppression of freedom. A liberal'primary freedom is freedom to finance what he likes with other people's money. A liberal also does not consider himself as free so long as he has not successfully suppressed people who don't agree with him.

[GOPJ]

Good point:

The point over the Piss piece and the Dung canvas was about public money and public support. My tax dollars should not be spent in those ways especially when courts demand that any positive image or expression of Christ -- say in a nativity scene -- should be banished from public buildings and never touch public funds. There is some major hypocrisy in the application of the First Amendment.

[Uncle Jaque]