“There are two Lady Godivas, two women on horses with no shirt on and long hair.”
–Republican delegate Robert Hurt of Texas
Or maybe not:
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 statutes — on the Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington — are apparently of great concern to Mr. Hurt:
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.
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Mr. Hurt offered statistics: He’d heard that 20 percent of the art in the National Gallery of Art is of nudes.
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Ridding Washington of naked art didn’t make [the GOP platform].
Neither, apparently, did banning the Bible — which has far more sex (not to mention rape and incest) than the Arlington Memorial Bridge. Go figure.
So what did make it into the Republican platform?
In this, a presidential year, it advocates prayer in school[,] teaching intelligent design with evolution in science classes [and] calls homosexuality contrary to “the unchanging truths” ordained by God. It opposes gay marriage, civil unions and the custody of children by gays.
And John McCain will come riding in, like Valor atop his steed, to take up this proud conservative banner into political combat, right?
There’s a call to repeal the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, sponsored by the party’s presidential nominee[.]
Ouch. Anyone know of any comparable divergence between the Democratic platform and Obama’s record or stated agenda?
(Via Fark.)
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