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Will the Rev. David Smith, Democratic candidate for the Seventh District Congressional seat, please explain how he can justify using tax money to support the arts - which are surely luxuries compared to food, fuel and like necessities.
And how can he, a minister, stomach the National Endowment for the Arts giving grants such as:
1) $15,000 to Serrano to produce the awful “Urine Crucifix” photograph, which is a blasphemous insult to all Christians and vulgarity at its worst.
2) $30,000 to exhibit Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs of homosexual acts too nauseating to put in print.
3) While NEA refuses to divulge the amount, porn queen Ann Sprinkle bragged that her live sex show in New York City, which was too perverse to describe, was made possible by tax dollars.
However, even if all art were free of controversy, why should the enslaved taxpayer be compelled to
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