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.
Thanks. My Dad was there on the beach when that flag was raised (Iwo Jima, that is)
exactly
Liberals ruin everything. They take what is precious and good and they taint it with evil, corruption and perversion
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That is the way of Satan. Nothing new or original in his tactics, just perverting what God has declared to be good.
What a great idea! Then we can hang them in every kindergarten classroom so all the kiddies will understand what America is really about. Wow!
I’m almost glad my father passed away in 2002 and didn’t see this and the rest of the Obama fiasco.
Excellent post !
here’s “no way in hell” he meant his image to be scandalous, he told The Post.
scandalous? likely so
he wanted it... to be... Just Ferocious
Well hats off to your Dad and all those guys that day whose bravery is almost unfathomable, in contrast to these homo dweebs who don’t even deserve to be spoken of in the same sentence.
Commies on the Left love to say that the original Rosenthal photo was “staged” and “created for promotional purposes” (recruiting/bond drives) but those are deliberate lies.
Meanwhile a poofter appropriates the image and stages his own derivative work and the Left applauds.
Typical.
The beach at Iwo Jima was soaked in blood, not Astroglide.
The men who raised the flag didn’t even all survive the battle at Iwo Jima.
Since the homofascist version is 10 years old, it’d be interesting (considering the abnormally short lifespan of homosexuals) to see how many of the men in the staged shot have since died of disease, drug abuse, or suicide.
the shape of that “rock” were seeing in the finished “product” appears to have beem FAKED..so yes it may well have been meant to be a rear end
Sick.
A few Marines ought to take this colon invader to school.
They sure do
I hate to say it.....but think the same about my dad. I miss him so.....but have a wonderful step-dad who served in WW2.
Creep from the Compost states (LIES) that the image has been altered “countless times” . CARE TO CITE A SPECIFIC EXAMPLE, CUPCAKE????
Why didn’t they show the truth? Ie planting a flag post in their own arse? They are hypocrit puritans in denial.
Their picture does not offend me, it makes me LAUGH the kind of crap they make themselves believe about themselves.
That is how Megyn Kelly showed the pictures on her show yesterday evening
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