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#1 2003-07-25 10:18 am
- ShnickyShnack
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Texans fume about Eve's boobs
I got this one off the wires:
PILOT POINT, Texas (AP) -- People here aren't upset about what's
inside a local art gallery. It's what's painted outside: a mural of a nude Eve.
Police gave gallery owner Wes Miller until Aug. 20 to change the wall mural, saying it violated state law against distributing "harmful material" to a minor. Otherwise, Miller will face criminal charges.
Miller said he'll go along with the change, though he doesn't see anything wrong with the picture, which depicts a reclining Eve, her pelvic region obscured in shadow, as a large hand points to the forbidden apple.
"I think of it as art on an art gallery wall," said Miller who has owned Farmers and Merchants Art Gallery for 28 years in this North Texas town.
But, he told the Denton Record-Chronicle in Friday's editions, "I don't feel it's my job to jeopardize my financial stability for the constitutional rights of the citizens of Pilot Point."
Miller said he and artist Justine Wollaston have discussed how to change the mural. One idea was a stripe across the breasts with the word "CENSORED."
No charges have been filed yet. "We've just had some complaints," Sgt. James Edland said.
City Council member Jay Melugin called the mural disgusting.
"I just don't like my children seeing it," he said.
I don't suppose those folks complain about the bullet-riddled corpses of Saddam's sons being shown on national TV in the middle of the daytime?
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#2 2003-07-25 10:25 am
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Re: Texans fume about Eve's boobs
Next thing, they'll try to ban anything from the masters.
I'm still trying to figure out why it's ok to have a gallery devoted to penises but it's not ok to have a masterful work depicting a female human form.
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#4 2003-07-25 10:32 am
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Re: Texans fume about Eve's boobs
And on the fourth day God created blue jeans and it was good.
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#5 2003-07-25 10:39 am
- ShnickyShnack
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Re: Texans fume about Eve's boobs
Won't someone please think of the children?!?!?!
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#6 2003-07-25 10:43 am
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Re: Texans fume about Eve's boobs
The world would be a better place if more breasts and fewer bloody corpses were shown on television.
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#7 2003-07-25 10:49 am
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I like the "Censored" cover up idea. It not only takes care of the problem, but indicates the reason why as well.
God forbid kids actually see a painting of breastisies. No wonder they're all so whacked. Hey, let's show people being killed instead, that's much better.
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#8 2003-07-25 10:53 am
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How about instead of "Censored" they put a black bar that says "Covered for the protection of the weak-minded"
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#9 2003-07-25 10:54 am
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Re: Texans fume about Eve's boobs
I'll bet if you tell the Texans in charge of this BS that if the only naked bits a little boy sees is a penis that he'll grow up gay they'll drop this case in a minute.
gratuitous disclaimer: please don't flame me, it was meant to be a joke and is insensitive on many levels to both gays and Texans.
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#10 2003-07-25 12:24 pm
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Re: Texans fume about Eve's boobs
Man, these religious types want it both ways don't they?
They really should think of this the way they do other things: this is free advertising for the creation story.
"But she's naked!" Of course, that's how the story goes.
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#11 2003-07-25 12:29 pm
Re: Texans fume about Eve's boobs
Man, these religious types want it both ways don't they?
They really should think of this the way they do other things: this is free advertising for the creation story.
"But she's naked!" Of course, that's how the story goes.
I didnt see religion in that article, did you?
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#12 2003-07-25 12:33 pm
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I didnt see religion in that article, did you?
No I don't, but these are conservative Christians who are complaining about it, I can almost guaranty you that.
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#13 2003-07-25 12:34 pm
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Re: Texans fume about Eve's boobs
WooHoo! I'm sold. 
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#14 2003-07-25 12:38 pm
Re: Texans fume about Eve's boobs
I didnt see religion in that article, did you?No I don't, but these are conservative Christians who are complaining about it, I can almost guaranty you that.
OoooO can I take part in the wild assumptions too?
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#15 2003-07-25 12:42 pm
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Re: Texans fume about Eve's boobs
If it was a naked man from the waist up, I wonder if people would still bitch...
Breasts! OH NO! The children! They aren't allowed to see the naked human form until they're 32, and have screwed up ideas about sex and the birds and the bees...and look! Dead bodies on TV! COOL!
"I also use lowercase christian when referring to her and people like her. To be Christian, they'd have to follow the example of Christ. These people are so un-Christlike, it's not even funny."
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#16 2003-07-25 12:45 pm
Re: Texans fume about Eve's boobs
If it was a naked man from the waist up, I wonder if people would still darling...
Breasts! OH NO! The children! They aren't allowed to see the naked human form until they're 32, and have screwed up ideas about sex and the birds and the bees...and look! Dead bodies on TV! COOL!
parents can regulate what their children see on tv. Having a massive picture slapped on the side of a building is kinda hard from stopping your kids from looking at.
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#17 2003-07-25 12:45 pm
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No I don't, but these are conservative Christians who are complaining about it, I can almost guaranty you that.
OoooO can I take part in the wild assumptions too?
That the people complaining about a nude Eve in Texas are conservative Christians? (That's a wild assumption?) Be my guest.
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#18 2003-07-25 12:46 pm
Re: Texans fume about Eve's boobs
No I don't, but these are conservative Christians who are complaining about it, I can almost guaranty you that.
OoooO can I take part in the wild assumptions too?
That the people complaining about a nude Eve in Texas are conservative Christians? (That's a wild assumption?) Be my guest.
yes it is
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#19 2003-07-25 12:47 pm
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Re: Texans fume about Eve's boobs
If it was a naked man from the waist up, I wonder if people would still darling...
Breasts! OH NO! The children! They aren't allowed to see the naked human form until they're 32, and have screwed up ideas about sex and the birds and the bees...and look! Dead bodies on TV! COOL!
parents can regulate what their children see on tv. Having a massive picture slapped on the side of a building is kinda hard from stopping your kids from looking at.
What's wrong with the naked human form?
"I also use lowercase christian when referring to her and people like her. To be Christian, they'd have to follow the example of Christ. These people are so un-Christlike, it's not even funny."
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#20 2003-07-25 12:48 pm
Re: Texans fume about Eve's boobs
If it was a naked man from the waist up, I wonder if people would still darling...
Breasts! OH NO! The children! They aren't allowed to see the naked human form until they're 32, and have screwed up ideas about sex and the birds and the bees...and look! Dead bodies on TV! COOL!
parents can regulate what their children see on tv. Having a massive picture slapped on the side of a building is kinda hard from stopping your kids from looking at.
What's wrong with the naked human form?
the law says its wrong
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#21 2003-07-25 12:50 pm
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Re: Texans fume about Eve's boobs
A painting of a naked woman is against the law?
Wow.
"I also use lowercase christian when referring to her and people like her. To be Christian, they'd have to follow the example of Christ. These people are so un-Christlike, it's not even funny."
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#22 2003-07-25 12:55 pm
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Breast feeding should be outlawed as well, because it exposes children to gratuitous boobies. Hell, they're practically shoved in the poor kids' faces. 
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#24 2003-07-25 1:00 pm
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Re: Texans fume about Eve's boobs
I didnt see religion in that article, did you?No I don't, but these are conservative Christians who are complaining about it, I can almost guaranty you that.
OoooO can I take part in the wild assumptions too?
I wouldn't call it a wild assumption. Texas is in the thick of the Bible belt and home to a disproportionate number of our nation's fundamentalists, and they have a lengthy history of protesting that which they find offensive, such as nudity, gambling, and drinking.* If I had to work with these odds in Vegas, I'd put all of my money on that bet.
Also, when was the last time a group of Godless athiests complained about a pair of breasts on a painting?
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#25 2003-07-25 1:02 pm
Re: Texans fume about Eve's boobs
Breast feeding should be outlawed as well, because it exposes children to gratuitous boobies. Hell, they're practically shoved in the poor kids' faces.
amazingly that has nothing to do with this
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