Posted on 07/02/2015 6:29:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
An image many call provocative, if not offensive, has caused an uproar on social media platforms since last week. The photo, taken by gay artist Ed Freeman of young men holding up a rainbow flag, replicates the iconic picture of Marines and a Navy Corpsman raising the American flag at Iwo Jima in 1945.
The Washington Post decided to highlight the controversy July 1 and let the artist defend himself. Freeman told the Post that the image originally for a cover of the gay magazine, Frontiers, was taken over ten years ago. After the Supreme Court ruling last week, someone shared the image and people started sending him hate mail, even death threats. But Freeman didn't shy away from the controversy, posting the image on his Facebook.
Freeman claimed that he took the picture for a gay audience, not for “straight people from small towns in Idaho.” He denied charges that he meant to be disrespectful. There’s “no way in hell” he meant his image to be scandalous, he told The Post.
The Washington Post’s Don Lamothe seemed dismissive of the image’s detractors as well. “Outrage” over artistic adaptations of the flag is “nothing new,” he wrote. The Iwo Jima image has been altered “countless times,” he reasoned, seemingly siding with Freeman.
Freeman blamed the disappointment over the recent Supreme Court ruling for the backlash against his photo. “I guess I get to be the whipping boy,” he told The Washington Post. “I’m fine with that if that’s what it takes.”
Though Freeman claimed he meant no harm, he is not backing down from the controversy. He told the Post that one of his critics suggested he alter more iconic images from history from a gay rights perspective.
It’s just 100% perversion.
What you can’t see is that they are ramming the flagpole up some guys’ a$$.
Liberals ruin everything. They take what is precious and good and they taint it with evil, corruption and perversion.
So says the lying, leftwing media.
STOP POSTING THIS BUGGERY!!!!!!!
Because that is what they are, evil and corrupt
The statement this doofus made was that he wasnT creative enough to have an original idea. Just another dumbed dow democrat.
Sooner or later these perverse buttsuckers are going to go to far. IWork is too far removed from most to be it. But when it does finally happen the snap back will be something for the ages. I cannot wait to see it happen.
No way those poofters would have had the balls to go up Mt. Suribachi to plant that flag.
Ira Hayes would be so proud.
Freeman is a jerk for using this image to further the agenda of sodomites and his perverted sense of artistry yet he sees nothing wrong with it, the mindset of leftists.
“I gues I’ll get to be the whipping boy.”
Wishful thinking, perhaps?
What happened to get the Iwo jima Flag raised:
In 36 days of brutal sustained warfare:
United States – 6,812 killed/missing
2 captured
19,217 wounded
What happened to get the rainbow Flag raised:
A homosexual photographer and four of his little friends walked up a hill on a sunny day.
Coward. I dare him to put a mohammed cartoon on that flag with 4 gay men holding it...Gays are being killed in muslim countries
That is a very good point.
sodomites defile everything they touch.
Gawd. Even the rock looks like a rear end. Disgusting.
How about this idea? Overlay the rainbow flag on a photograph of a mass rally of Nazi storm troopers. If Ernst Roehm is in the picture, so much the better! It would be an accurate picture!
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