Comments on: US Reps Wanna Axe Smithsonian's Gay Art, Should Have Something More Important to Do http://www.autostraddle.com/ok-republicans-we-get-it-you-love-jesus-hate-gays-68296/ The World's Most Popular Independently-Owned Website for Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women Wed, 22 May 2013 01:36:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Eldie http://www.autostraddle.com/ok-republicans-we-get-it-you-love-jesus-hate-gays-68296/#comment-70612 Eldie Fri, 03 Dec 2010 03:12:45 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=68296#comment-70612 Oh, hey, Bette–when did you start writing for Autostraddle?

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]]> By: SomethingClever http://www.autostraddle.com/ok-republicans-we-get-it-you-love-jesus-hate-gays-68296/#comment-70600 SomethingClever Fri, 03 Dec 2010 02:10:19 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=68296#comment-70600 Yeah, I feel you. It’s a bit harsh. I wavered on posting it, but once it entered my mind it begin itching me to be released. If it makes you feel any better I do not in fact have any hunting licenses and the only weapon I own is sarcasm.

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]]> By: theboattimes http://www.autostraddle.com/ok-republicans-we-get-it-you-love-jesus-hate-gays-68296/#comment-70542 theboattimes Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:45:16 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=68296#comment-70542 Wait. Wintertime=Christiantime?
What about Hanukkah/Ramadan/the obvs pagan ritual of putting a dead tree in your living room and gathering around it to pay homage to the natural world/snowangels/all the other things that happen during the “Christian season?”

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]]> By: elster http://www.autostraddle.com/ok-republicans-we-get-it-you-love-jesus-hate-gays-68296/#comment-70481 elster Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:02:01 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=68296#comment-70481 For these particular Christians to freak out – eg. about a crucifix covered in ants- to the point of demanding that said artwork and others be removed

is to suggest that there is no room for discussion or enlightenment regarding the tough questions that said art can raise

and is also thus to suggest that one does not trust God to have or provide answers to these questions.

In short, it is to sell (the/their Christian) *God* short by suggesting that God is not big enough to have any decent response (or a way to communicate it) to anything that could be deemed mildly critical of the Christian faith.

Personally, I think God is bigger than that.

Having said that, the actual artwork was to ‘show the pain, suffering and isolation of living with (and dying of) AIDS in the eighties’, which doesn’t really directly critique the Christian faith at all.
And knowing that Jesus was meant to have been/still is a truly top bloke with the biggest and most compassionate heart of anyone ever (hello, died for all the sins), I’m pretty sure that he’s far more interested in helping convey the pain of others and thus perhaps inspiring empathy and understanding in exhibition visitors,
than being funny that there’s this artwork showing him covered in God’s blessed bugs.

Jussayin’.

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]]> By: elster http://www.autostraddle.com/ok-republicans-we-get-it-you-love-jesus-hate-gays-68296/#comment-70476 elster Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:31:50 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=68296#comment-70476 (props for a clever call though but still).
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]]> By: Sarah G http://www.autostraddle.com/ok-republicans-we-get-it-you-love-jesus-hate-gays-68296/#comment-70472 Sarah G Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:19:21 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=68296#comment-70472 Sidenote: Dana Delany (Sen. Grisham in L Word) plays Katherine on Desperate Housewives who ends up dating a woman…love the (gay) connections.

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]]> By: elster http://www.autostraddle.com/ok-republicans-we-get-it-you-love-jesus-hate-gays-68296/#comment-70469 elster Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:06:00 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=68296#comment-70469 Ouch.

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]]> By: Lady http://www.autostraddle.com/ok-republicans-we-get-it-you-love-jesus-hate-gays-68296/#comment-70461 Lady Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:46:24 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=68296#comment-70461 apparently the smithsonian caved and took jesus down

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]]> By: World Spinner http://www.autostraddle.com/ok-republicans-we-get-it-you-love-jesus-hate-gays-68296/#comment-70450 World Spinner Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:51:58 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=68296#comment-70450 Autostraddle — US Reps Wanna Axe Smithsonian's Gay Art, Should ……

Here at World Spinner we are debating the same thing……

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]]> By: SomethingClever http://www.autostraddle.com/ok-republicans-we-get-it-you-love-jesus-hate-gays-68296/#comment-70417 SomethingClever Thu, 02 Dec 2010 07:23:47 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=68296#comment-70417 Oh shit, it’s Christian season already. Now, where did I put my hunting license?

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]]> By: SomethingClever http://www.autostraddle.com/ok-republicans-we-get-it-you-love-jesus-hate-gays-68296/#comment-70415 SomethingClever Thu, 02 Dec 2010 07:21:22 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=68296#comment-70415 I’d like to table you now.

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]]> By: Abernathy http://www.autostraddle.com/ok-republicans-we-get-it-you-love-jesus-hate-gays-68296/#comment-70366 Abernathy Thu, 02 Dec 2010 04:49:31 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=68296#comment-70366 I’m an asshole too. That scene is AMAZING.

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