Well, not quite. But the National Endowment for the Arts almost decapitated an artist. Or, they almost did something comparable to decapitating an artist.
georgia10 at KosKids writes:
What we should remember as this story unfolds is that the tensions between religious sensitivities and free speech is not limited to the borders of Europe and the Muslim world. Within our own borders, we have repeatedly witnessed the protesting of art by religious groups who perceive the works to be blasphemy. Perhaps the starkest example of this occurred in the late 1990s with Chris Ofili’s “The Virgin Mary”. Ofili’s painting depicted the Virgin Mary surrounded by elephant dung. Ofili’s painting was so controversial, the gallery that exhibited it almost lost its funding. [emphasis mine]
My goodness! They almost lost their funding? For depicting the mother of the Christian savior in a pile of animal excrement?
And this is the starkest example the kids could find?
It might be worth noting, just in passing, that what is limited to the “Muslim world” is the threat to cut off the heads of people who cause offense, however minor. Whereas we occasionally threaten (unsuccessfully, apparently) to withhold taxpayer funding for work that offends the vast majority of taxpayers.
Cutting funding, cutting necks, it’s all the same to the Kos kids. Which explains, maybe, why the left doesn’t seem to know who the real bad guys are.
