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Gallery’s invitation to deface the Bible brings obscene response

A publicly funded exhibition is encouraging people to deface the Bible in the name of art — and visitors have responded with abuse and obscenity.

The show includes a video of a woman ripping pages from the Bible and stuffing them into her bra, knickers and mouth.

The open Bible is a central part of Made in God’s Image, an exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art (Goma) in Glasgow. By the book is a container of pens and a notice saying: “If you feel you have been excluded from the Bible, please write your way back into it.”

The exhibit, Untitled 2009, was proposed by the Metropolitan Community Church, which said that the idea was to reclaim the Bible as a sacred text. But to the horror of many Christians, including the community church, visitors have daubed its pages with comments such as “This is all sexist pish, so disregard it all.” A contributor wrote on the first page of Genesis: “I am Bi, Female & Proud. I want no god who is disappointed in this.”

The artist, a Canadian who took a master’s degree at Glasgow School of Art, said that human rights were at the centre of the show. “If we are to open up the Bible for discussion, surely we have to invite people to speak out,” he said.

Because up until now, the Bible has not been open for discussion.

A spokesman for the Catholic Church said: “One wonders whether the organisers would have been quite as willing to have the Koran defaced.”

Maybe Christians ought to start reacting the way the Religion Of Peace does to desecration. Only that won't work, because Christians are moral.

My fellow queers, being gay does not release us from the rules of moral and civilized behavior.

Gay activists attack religion

When Art Attacks

The Gallery of Modern Art ("GoMA") in Glasgow, Scotland, is currently exhibiting a show entitled "Made in God's Image", and what a spectacle it is....

GoMA describes the purpose of the show in detail, as one can read here, though this bit in particular is revelatory:

While some of the works may be controversial from the more traditional and right-leaning positions, the exhibition challenges the assumption that one cannot lead a fully spiritual life while identifying as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and/or Intersexed.

It is the definition of "fully spiritual", on the part of this show's organizers, that is questionable. One of the "fully spiritual" aspects of this show is an opportunity for visitors, as The Telegraph (tongue-in-cheek) puts it, to "adorn" the Holy Bible with "comments". Some of these comments are rather coarse, as one might expect. The website provides details of other "fully spiritual" parts of the show.

It is also proper, particularly since this is a taxpayer-funded institution, for the public to register their displeasure with this show not only with the museum and its benefactors, but also with local and national government officials and the media, should John or Jane Public feel compelled to do so. A well-worded, reasoned response, rather than the histrionics demonstrated by the participants in this spectacle, will go a long way. There is no need to make onesself into a screaming harpie over the products of second-rate art school iconoclasm.

This kind of behavior is exactly what we queers need to not do if we want to be accepted as productive citizens and an asset to society.

The Republican Case for Gay Marriage

“I am a little to the right of Rush Limbaugh. I’m so conservative that I approve of San Francisco City Hall marriages, adoption by same-sex couples, and New Hampshire’s recently ordained Episcopal bishop. Gays want to get married, have children, and go to church. Next they’ll be advocating school vouchers, boycotting HBO, and voting Republican.” — P.J. O’Rourke, The Atlantic, July/August 2004

Looked at from this perspective, gay marriage isn’t a complex issue. Science aside, one needn’t believe that homosexuality is moral in order to understand that nowhere does the Constitution give the federal government the right to regulate marriage.

Do gay parents do a good job?

'Gayby boom': Children of gay couples speak out

The laws may have been passed to protect the family, but allowing gay people to marry could actually strengthen the family, says Jesse Levey, the Republican activist who was raised by two lesbians.

"The conservative argument for family values is that we should be in married couples; I agree," Levey says. "If we want to see children raised by married couples, then we should let gay people get married."

A Republican lobbying for same-sex marriages might seem odd, but Levey says he embraces the conservative notion of individual freedom. He became a Republican at 12. Once, he sought permission for his middle school class to listen to Rush Limbaugh (he says he no longer listens to Limbaugh).

"When you grow up with Lesbian mothers, you can't get your ears pierced to rebel," he says. "I became a Republican."

Today, Levey sees his parents' choice not as an expression of rebellion, but as a desire for something that's actually a conservative virtue -- a loving family.

Children Of Lesbian Couples Are Doing Well, Study Finds

“The findings in the Dutch study are identical to those in a very large number of U.S. studies,” said Robert-Jay Green PhD, director of Rockway Institute, a national center for research and public policy on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. “Children do well in loving families, regardless of whether there are two moms or a mom and a dad involved.”