The Obama administration is spending $70,000 in Pakistan to assure Muslims there that the U.S. Government respects the religious beliefs of all faiths. In the ad the President says “We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.”
Well, not all others of course. Just the religions of those that kill American citizens and diplomats.
While the U.S. government has launched a full scale campaign against the religious rights of Christians and in particular Catholics, they spend the tax dollars of those same Christians trying to convince murderous Muslims to not be so murderous.
But at the very same time that these tax-payer funded ads are running in Pakistan, another tax-payer funded project will be on display in New York…
September 23, 2012 at 4:36 am
I have seen "Piss Christ." I was young and touchy and I went to see it because the exhibit was being protested and I thought, "You can't tell me what to see, this is a free country!" So I went to see the exhibit it was part of, which had the objectionable photos in a separate area from his regular work. My impression even then was that the guy and the art museum were far more interested in their right to do something than in whether they had any justification in doing it, or in whether it was worth doing. It is a very nice photo, in terms of composition, etc. The guy was a great photographer. That said, there is no other reason for this particular photo except to offend people. And when I saw the photos, I found that very obvious and was no longer so full of myself and my righteous indignation about free expression, etc. It wasn't art and it wasnt' a "statement," it was just a disturbed and angry guy who thought that his every thought was art. I used to go to a lot of modern art exhibits and ended up thinking of most of the artists as engaged in using gimmicks in one way or another. After a while I didn't care and stopped going.