By: Don Caldwell
What is the difference between art and an attack?
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A Montana woman has been charged with criminal mischief after allegedly taking a crowbar to a controversial art museum display in Colorado that critics say portrays Jesus Christ receiving oral sex from another man.
Kathleen Folden, 56, of Kalispell, Mont., was arrested Wednesday and accused of damaging the the 12-panel lithograph, "The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals."
The piece, on display since Sept. 11 at the tax-funded Loveland Museum Gallery in Loveland, Colo., includes several images of Jesus, including one in which he appears to be receiving oral sex from a man as the word "orgasm" appears beside Jesus’ head.
It has triggered protests and even calls to police by critics asking for an investigation into whether it violates a Colorado law that protects children from obscenity, the Loveland Reporter Herald reported. The city attorney determined it did not.
Witnesses told the Reporter-Herald that Folden entered the Loveland Museum Gallery, used a crowbar to break glass over the art and ripped the print
Is it hypocritical to say that tax dollars must fund religious art when it is offensive, but not allowed to display it during Christmas time when it is not? And why is it that we only condone such obviously offensive art when it targets Christianity? You don’t see anyone doing this with another religion, do you?
(ORIGINAL LINK) Mont. Woman Arrested for Damaging Jesus 'Porn' Art in Colo. - FoxNews.com
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