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National
Endowment for the Arts
"No agency of the government has
done more to insult the values of traditional Americans than has the NEA," says
Christian Action Network president Martin Mawyer. Down through the years, the
Endowment has subsidized numerous "works of art which mock religious values;
highlight nudity and sexual perversion; glorify profanity; feature human
mutilation; and celebrate sadomasochism and torture to name only a few
outrageous examples" (Chicago Tribune
5/26/96).
Congress has called for the National Endowment to be
prohibited from subsidizing any sexually oriented or anti-religious "art." But
look at their track record.
- The Watermelon Woman, a "black history" film
featuring what one review called "the hottest dyke sex scene ever
recorded on celluloid," was funded by a $31,500 NEA grant.
- The Dinner Party is a 140-foot triangle depicting
the imagined genitalia of 39 historically important women, including
Susan B. Anthony and Georgia O'Keeffe. It was created with a NEA grant of
$36,500.
- Highways, a Santa Monica performance center "where
genitalia and homoerotic exhibitionism are mainstays," received taxpayer money
through a NEA grant. They presented Boys R Us, which Highways calls "our
continuing series of hot summer nights with hot fags," and Not for
Republicans, which addresses, among other topics, "sex with Newt
Gingrich's mom."
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