Politics — But think of the CHILDREN!!!
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Good god. Some politicians are such idiots — quelle surprise — and have too much time and too little research on their hands.
Work on Texas GOP’s platform stirs passions
Friday, June 13, 2008, By WAYNE SLATER / The Dallas Morning News
HOUSTON – Robert Hurt went to Washington and didn’t like what he saw – nudity in the nation’s capital.
“Nude women, sculptured women,” he told the state Republican platform committee, which sat in rapt attention.
Of all the evils in Washington that the Texas GOP took aim at this week, removing art with naked people from public view was high on the list for Mr. Hurt, a delegate from Kerrville.
“You don’t have nude art on your front porch,” he explained. “You possibly don’t have nude art in your living rooms. So why is it important to have that in the common places of Washington, D.C.?”
Mr. Hurt offered statistics: He’d heard that 20 percent of the art in the National Gallery of Art is of nudes.
He offered detail: On Arlington Memorial Bridge overlooking the famed national cemetery, “there are two Lady Godivas, two women on horses with no shirt on and long hair.”
Actually, they are classical sculptures about war – one called Valor, depicting a male equestrian and a female with a shield, and Sacrifice, a female accompanying the rider Mars…
Then the news story goes on about a bunch more blah-blah-blah Christian Republican values blah-blah-blah. But for now…
What about these disgusting pornographic statues? The ones which he looked at so briefly he thought the women were riding the horses?
From here:
Flanking the eastern ends of the bridge and the parkway are two pairs of monumental neoclassical equestrian sculpture on identical pedestals. “The Arts of War” by Leo Friedlander stand at the end of the bridge. In “Valor” on the left (looking from the Lincoln Memorial), the male equestrian is accompanied by a female striding forward with a shield; in “Sacrifice” on the right, a standing female symbolizing the earth looks up to the rider Mars.
Whoa. I am revolted at the blatantly perverted sexuality. Nope, can’t even pretend to say that with a straight face. Too bad Mr. Hurt didn’t find something of substance during his visit to Washington DC rather than sitting “in rapt attention” staring at nudies on a National Park Service bridge.