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Smithsonian Christmas-Season Exhibit Features Ant-Covered Jesus, Naked Brothers Kissing, Genitalia,
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Posted on 11/30/2010 5:55:27 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Smithsonian Christmas-Season Exhibit Features Ant-Covered Jesus, Naked Brothers Kissing, Genitalia, and Ellen DeGeneres Grabbing Her Breasts WARNING: This story contains graphic photographs of items on display in an exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery. Monday, November 29, 2010 By Penny Starr

(CNSNews.com) -- The federally funded National Portrait Gallery, one of the museums of the Smithsonian Institution, is currently showing an exhibition that features images of an ant-covered Jesus, male genitals, naked brothers kissing, men in chains, Ellen DeGeneres grabbing her breasts, and a painting the Smithsonian itself describes in the show's catalog as "homoerotic."

The exhibit, “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,” opened on Oct. 30 and will run throughout the Christmas Season, closing on Feb. 13.

“This is an exhibition that displays masterpieces of American portraiture and we wanted to illustrate how questions of biography and identity went into the making of images that are canonical,” David C. Ward, a National Portrait Gallery (NGP) historian who is also co-curator of the exhibit, told CNSNews.com.

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A plaque fixed to the wall at the entrance to the exhibit says that the National Portrait Gallery is “committed to showing how a major theme in American history has been the struggle for justice so that people and groups can claim their full inheritance in America’s promise of equality, inclusion, and social dignity. As America’s museum of national biography, the NPG is also vitally interested in the art of portrayal and how portraiture reflects our ideas about ourselves and others.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: npg; satanworship; sickart; smithsonian
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Just wonderful........
1 posted on 11/30/2010 5:55:33 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Satan is hard at work again.


2 posted on 11/30/2010 5:57:34 AM PST by divine_moment_of_facts (Give me Liberty.. or I'll get up and get it for myself!)
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To: Sub-Driver

God must be so proud that His sent His only begotten Son to rescue such kooks


3 posted on 11/30/2010 5:58:17 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Sub-Driver

Sounds like a TSA screening.


4 posted on 11/30/2010 6:01:06 AM PST by mnehring
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To: Sub-Driver

5 posted on 11/30/2010 6:02:28 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality. Save America From Bankruptcy.)
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To: Sub-Driver

No naked muhamad?


6 posted on 11/30/2010 6:02:45 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Sub-Driver

2. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”

http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm


7 posted on 11/30/2010 6:05:31 AM PST by SF_Redux
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To: Sub-Driver

Why do taxpayers pay for this crap?


8 posted on 11/30/2010 6:05:58 AM PST by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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To: Sub-Driver

I guess they’ll do an ant-covered Mohammed next time.

Don’t you love seeing taxpayer money used by pissy flaming queers to do “provocative” exhibits during Christian holidays?


9 posted on 11/30/2010 6:07:47 AM PST by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: Sub-Driver
Ellen DeGeneres Grabbing Her Breasts...

Certainly a puke factor of 10, and a mental image that I'll have to scrub out of my eyes with bleach.

The whole display is disgusting, but in the interest of "rights", I'll exercise mine not to look.

I'm a little pissed that my tax money goes to support this crap, however.

Were it not for taxpayer subsidies, that Mapplethorpe faggot would not even have a venue to display his pornography.

The National Endowment for Arts is a huge taxpayer ripoff.

Has obama proposed a reduction in pay for this crap?

10 posted on 11/30/2010 6:07:47 AM PST by OldSmaj (I am an avowed enemy of islam and Obama is a damned fool and traitor. Questions?)
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Would the Smithsonian Christmas-Season Exhibit Feature: 1) a painting of the Prophet Mohamed F**king a goat 2) Crescent Star in a jar of urine 3) a sculpture of Masjid al-Harām in Makkah covered in dung 4) a photograph of the Dome of the Rock hosting a gay orgy 5) a drawing of Allah as a female being raped
11 posted on 11/30/2010 6:08:42 AM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: OldSmaj

This is the NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY

It is such a beautiful place full of so many treasures. Looks like the trash is pilling up though.

Too bad, I had planned a holiday visit, their gift shop is/was wonderful


12 posted on 11/30/2010 6:09:35 AM PST by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: Sub-Driver
Yawn. The usual. They put Jesus with something gross, don't touch islum, and something about poo.

Wake me when art gets original again. Right now these cretins have been stuck in a pathetic warp for about 30 years.

Yawn-yawn-YAWN.

13 posted on 11/30/2010 6:11:06 AM PST by Christian Engineer Mass
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To: GeronL
Why do taxpayers pay for this crap?

Hopefully the Republican majority House will cut off all funds for this and other pervert and anti-God programs. Then, when we get a conservative President that has morals and common sense and upholds the U.S. Constitution as well as a majority in the Senate in 2012 or earlier we will start the road back to sanity and "One Nation Under God".

14 posted on 11/30/2010 6:12:41 AM PST by Evil Slayer (Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war)
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To: paulycy
Artful and tasteful presentation.
You win the prize for truthful and accurate represent ion.
15 posted on 11/30/2010 6:13:23 AM PST by BilLies (no)
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To: Sub-Driver
...an ant-covered Jesus

In a world where drawing a stick-figure Muhammad gets death threats, artists continue to proclaim their cowardice for all to see.

16 posted on 11/30/2010 6:13:35 AM PST by denydenydeny (Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak-Adams)
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To: Evil Slayer

I really doubt the GOP will cut off funds for the Smithsonian.


17 posted on 11/30/2010 6:14:28 AM PST by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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To: Le Chien Rouge

That’s creative stuff dude. Especially 5. Put some blond highlights in your hair & you might get away with calling that art. It’s, you know, a statement.


18 posted on 11/30/2010 6:14:31 AM PST by Christian Engineer Mass
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To: SF_Redux

Thank you. We need to continue to fight back.

Corporate donors - the usual...

http://www.si.edu/giving/giv_corporate_members.html


19 posted on 11/30/2010 6:15:12 AM PST by bronxville
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To: Evil Slayer

“Hopefully the Republican majority House will cut off all funds for this and other pervert and anti-God programs”

Ah. Hope & change. Hope & change.


20 posted on 11/30/2010 6:15:29 AM PST by Christian Engineer Mass
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