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Title: Bare-breasted Eve creates uproar
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Detroit Free Press
URL Source: http://www.freep.com/news/locmac/mural7e_20050607.htm
Published: Jun 7, 2005
Author: CHRISTY ARBOSCELLO
Post Date: 2005-06-07 11:11:23 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
Keywords: Bare-breasted, creates, uproar
Views: 56
Comments: 16
Bare-breasted Eve creates uproar June 7, 2005 Artists on other ends of the country, inspired by the same masterpiece, dipped their paintbrushes in hot water when they created a topless biblical first woman. It's a tale of how two unrelated murals dabbled into strikingly similar controversies. Artworks painted on outside gallery walls in Michigan and Texas contained a bare-chested Eve and transpired into court affairs after city officials deemed them inappropriate. The cases are pending as the American Civil Liberties Union argues that the cities violated the artists' First Amendment rights by censoring the pieces. In metro Detroit, Ed (Gonzo) Stross awaits word after appealing a district court judge's order that he serve jail time for his variation of Michelangelo's "Creation of Man" on his Roseville art studio and home. In the small town of Pilot Point, Texas, the federal lawsuit Wes Miller filed over a revision of the Sistine Chapel masterpiece that artist Justine Wollaston brushed on his gallery remains at a standstill. Stross and Miller were ordered to cover the breasts. "I just thought: 'Wow, what an odd, amazing amount of similarities.' " Miller said Friday, comparing the dispute he's in with the Detroit-area one. Stross said: "It's a popular piece. You study the masters and you duplicate it." But the commonality between the two "really is something," he said. The Roseville City Council declared that the depiction of Eve and the word "LOVE" inscribed on the mural violated a variance to a sign ordinance. "I just think that compliance to the ordinance is all that we asked for," Mayor Pro Tem Harold Haugh said Monday. Roseville District Judge Marco Santia ordered Stross to serve 30 days in jail and two years of probation and to pay a $500 fine. Stross is free on bond. Back in Texas, in 2003, Wollaston created an 80-foot-long and 14-foot-high mural outside Miller's gallery. Miller said local officials warned him it violated a penal code of displaying harmful materials to minors. "I didn't want a charge of pornography against me, whether it was true or not," Miller said, explaining why he complied with the censorship. No court date has been set for either case.
Poster Comment:
Texas case parallels one in Michigan
BY CHRISTY ARBOSCELLO
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
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#1. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#0)
The man and his wife were both naked. They didn't feel any shame. Awake thou that sleepest
That was before the fall. Now the human body is considered corrupt, filthy, nasty, pornographic, sexual, harmful to the chillun. Religion is so goofy.
But they didn't live in a fascist, neocon, religious kookocracy like we do now.
I feel safer already!
Can you even imagine the pandemonium if our kids found out that women have boobies?!?
Or that they were born NAKKEDD!
Liar!!! They are born wrapped in swaddling clothes! The Bible says so. Heathen.
I'm just thinking about Edwin Meese issuing his report on pornography while standing between the two topless statues. Absolutely priceless. The same statues that made John Ashcroft uncomfortable enough that we taxpayers paid $5K to get curtains to cover. How do these people conceive children if the nude female form unnerves them so?
Especially when we find out that so many of them in fact are gay pedophiles.
laughing...
It is friggin idiots like these local officials that give religion a bad name. Harmful materials? Well, Jesus Christ, should come and point out to these assholes that God's Word, indicates Adam AND Eve were NAKED before GOD! And He obviously didn't have a frickin problem with them--after all, HE CREATED THEM! Damn, damn, damn these idiots! If such artwork is harmful to minors, then why didn't God just create grownups, so they couldn't be corrupted by HIS creation! Sheesh.........
Especially when we find out that so many of them in fact are gay pedophiles. Priceless..........on both accounts! :)
Outstanding rant, Dee. Cheers up there. (Did you get to see the Cuttnhorse on his recent visit?)
Greetings back atcha, loddy. Nah.......I wasn't aware they were up here.......last month was such a zoo for me. Betwist getting my Dad out of the hospital with pneumonia, babying him and watching the meds, and doing the oxygen thingie, and my Mom and kid brother coming up for near two weeks--and bro is on oxygen, too. I could have been arrested for the pill brigade! Honest to Pete (whoever Pete is). Dad takes 7, my Mom takes only some number the good Lord knows, as well as the kid brother, who also downs a shot of methadone each morning with OJ!!! My 2 pills, plus vitamin, calcium, baby aspirin, flax oil, Vit B complex with 12, and the occaisonal Lysine! We musta been downing probably 100 pills a day! And the guys with liters of oxygen! And in the midst of all of it, my puter was. (and still is) demon-possessed! But for only a short time longer. After 3 techs, the last of which it appears I know more about them than he (and that ain't saying much :( ), new electrical lines devoted to computer equipment, and doing a restore, this gal is getting a new computer! Screw it! I believe it was around 6 pm on Saturday that my last nerve headed south! Anyhow, right now, I've been able to type a few minutes without Damon the Demon attacking. :) Basically can't type much or long cause he dumps everything!
Haven't you heard? G.O.P. now stands for "Gay Old Pederasts". What else did you expect from "The Party of Lincoln"? Heck, just ask the "Log Cabin" boys, they'll fill you right in, er, give you the low-down, uh, that is to say they'll tell you the story.
Genesis 2:25
#2. To: 1776 (#1)
#3. To: 1776 (#1)
The man and his wife were both naked. They didn't feel any shame. Genesis 2:25
I can either drink, or I can weep.
I find drinking to be much more subtle.
#4. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#0)
#5. To: tom007 (#4)
#6. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#5)
#7. To: tom007 (#6)
#8. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#5)
#9. To: historian1944 (#8)
How do these people conceive children if the nude female form unnerves them so?
#10. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#9)
Especially when we find out that so many of them in fact are gay pedophiles.
#11. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#0)
Miller said local officials warned him it violated a penal code of displaying harmful materials to minors.
#12. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut, historian1944 (#9)
How do these people conceive children if the nude female form unnerves them so?
#13. To: rowdee (#11)
#14. To: lodwick (#13)
#15. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut, christine, rowdee (#9)
How do these people conceive children if the nude female form unnerves them so? Especially when we find out that so many of them in fact are gay pedophiles.
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#16. To: Elliott Jackalope (#15)
And you are priceless, too!
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