Texas GOP Convention - attempts to remove all naked art from public view and more freaky stuff

[powergirl]

My husband found this article. I thought it was from The Onion - but it's the real deal. Enjoy!

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. The GOP platform will be presented today to the full convention. Like all platforms, it's a statement of principle and a political document to rally the troops."


http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/national/stories/DN-btl_13pol.ART.State.Edition1.4601c51.html


:wtf:

[MadMaddie]

1. This is why they are all so fucked up....they are afraid of

sex because they are so uptight about it...and then you find out they are beating their spouses, going after boys..... Not surprised....

[opihimoimoi]

3. Amazing Ignorance from a grown man....shallow shallow no class ignoramus

[cliffordu]

11. That's right - he should cut off his genitalia before it makes him

SIN!!!!!

[MichiganVote]

2. Morons

[City Lights]

4. Where's John Asscroft when you need him? I'm sure he's got some

extra curtains laying around specifically for this purpose.

How embarrassing.

[CoffeeCat]

5. Republican politicians....

Obsessed with sex, but repulsed by their own obsession.

[Barack_America]

9. Ain't that the truth.

This is why you shouldn't make kids feel guilty for masturbating.

[pnwmom]

6. The American Taliban.

Next thing they'll wanting to burn the paintings.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

7. You just can't make this stuff up n/t

[muntrv]

8. Don't tell Robert Hurt that people have sex to create babies. He still believes

they come from the stork.

[LowerManhattanite]

10. You know, I always knew the Texas GOP were as crazy as shit-house rats...

...but sometimes, a tangible reminder just hammers the Goddamned point home.

Man.

[powergirl]

12. They are and I live among them

I actually hear crap like this and it's amazing to see in print. And maybe I do have a naked statue on my porch - how do they know. :)

[MagickMuffin]

13. These people have SUCH an aversion to nudity

{{ snip }}

Like all platforms, it's a statement of principle and a political document to rally the troops.

In this, a presidential year, it advocates prayer in school, getting out of the United Nations, teaching intelligent design with evolution in science classes, repealing of the minimum wage, declaring illegal immigrants criminals and outlawing abortion with no exceptions.

"Hallelujah!" said a delegate who had urged strong anti-abortion language.

The platform calls homosexuality contrary to "the unchanging truths" ordained by God. It opposes gay marriage, civil unions and the custody of children by gays.

The party's own leaders aren't spared. There's a call to repeal the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, sponsored by the party's presidential nominee, and to oppose the Trans-Texas Corridor, the brainchild of Gov. Rick Perry.

They certainly are delusional, I'll give 'em that much.

[kath]

18. what kills me is that they have such an aversion to nudity and they think the human body is so

disgusting, yet they say that humans were created in the image of God.
So: human body disgusting and shameful = God disgusting? WTF?

ah, the religionists make so much sense...

[LaPera]

14. Republican slime!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

15. Another gem:

Ridding Washington of naked art didn't make it. Neither did a complaint by a Kerr County delegate that her daughter was having trouble getting college scholarships.

"There are so many scholarships, if you are the right color," she said. "But for a white girl, who has good grades, you really have to look."

That explains the nonexistent white female college students. :rofl:

[DesEtoiles]

19. maybe she shouldn't have used the "n" word when talking to the admissions office...

[NYC_SKP]

16. I wanna show them all my, well, I want to moon them.

Can I do that? Will I get in trouble?

Ok, sorry, got carried away there.

Odd, but more and more real stories are starting to look like they came from the Onion.

[salguine]

17. Well, then, as a giant dick, he should never leave his house. Children might see him.

[DesEtoiles]

20. I'll bet a million dollars all the male GOPers hit some of the many strip clubs in Houston

"it's ok for US, just no for those other people to go to places like this..."

[powergirl]

22. What??? The Family Values Party

go to strip clubs???? Impossible I say! :sarcasm:

[intaglio]

21. Ok so what would they make of

Sheela na Gig - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheela_na_Gig

and

Cerne Abbas giant - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerne_Abbas_giant

WARNING for those who are easily offended these are graphic images

[Abacus]

23. I think I get it now

racist buttons: :thumbsup:
art: :thumbsdown: