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GOP Reps Blast Smithsonian Exhibit Featuring Ant-Covered Jesus on Cross (paid for with taxes!)
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/11/30/ant-covered-jesus-exhibition-sparks-call-congressional-probe/ ^

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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1 posted on 11/30/2010 1:00:09 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA

Cut off 100% of NEA, NPR, PBS funding. 100% of it. All done, let Soros and the Commies fund their filth.


2 posted on 11/30/2010 1:02:50 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Any Krap Kovered Koran’s?

Or are these so-called ‘artists’ total wimp-ass cowards?


3 posted on 11/30/2010 1:04:26 PM PST by Mr. K ('profiling' would be much more offensive than grabbing your balls)
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To: Red in Blue PA

....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!


4 posted on 11/30/2010 1:06:10 PM PST by himno hero
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To: Red in Blue PA

Greatly reduce funding for the National Portrait Gallery until they fire those responsible (beginning with the curator) for this travesty.


5 posted on 11/30/2010 1:06:25 PM PST by Melchior
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To: Mr. K

Probably not, but I left a mohammed in the toilet yesterday.


6 posted on 11/30/2010 1:06:33 PM PST by LukeL (Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
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To: Mr. K

“Or are these so-called ‘artists’ total wimp-ass cowards?”

YES.


7 posted on 11/30/2010 1:06:33 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: Mr. K

Yes to the second item in your post.


8 posted on 11/30/2010 1:06:46 PM PST by Ratman83
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To: Red in Blue PA

Bobby Jindal for President, 2012!


9 posted on 11/30/2010 1:08:34 PM PST by mlizzy (Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee ...)
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To: Red in Blue PA

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/


10 posted on 11/30/2010 1:08:39 PM PST by RWGinger
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To: Red in Blue PA

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.


11 posted on 11/30/2010 1:09:12 PM PST by kittymyrib
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To: Red in Blue PA

Why do no democrats care about this?


12 posted on 11/30/2010 1:11:50 PM PST by Carley (IT'S THREAT ANALYSIS, NOT RACIAL PROFILING)
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To: Red in Blue PA

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.


13 posted on 11/30/2010 1:12:31 PM PST by Paine in the Neck (Napolean fries the idea powder.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

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).


14 posted on 11/30/2010 1:13:55 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: Carley

“Why do no democrats care about this?”

Excellent question. Perhaps they’re all in favor of it.


15 posted on 11/30/2010 1:14:46 PM PST by kitkat ( Obama's Hype and Chains just isn't working.)
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To: Mr. K

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.


16 posted on 11/30/2010 1:15:56 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: Red in Blue PA

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.


17 posted on 11/30/2010 1:16:56 PM PST by La Lydia
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To: Red in Blue PA
Come on all you artist, if you really want to make a statement show a picture of Mo hammed taking a crap in the desert with his 8 yr old wife watching. I betcha ain't got the guts for it.
18 posted on 11/30/2010 1:17:36 PM PST by Americanexpat
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To: Carley

“Why do no democrats care about this”?

...because they’re Godless. And this pleases their Godless base.


19 posted on 11/30/2010 1:24:23 PM PST by albie
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To: himno hero

i’m sure the Smithsonian will soon have an taxpayer funded exhibit of the prophet mohammed sodomizing his nine year old wife....


20 posted on 11/30/2010 1:30:52 PM PST by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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