WASHINGTON (LSN) — The US Senate will vote this week on a proposal by North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms to cut off all funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, the agency which gives “taxpayers’ money to self-styled artists whose art comes straight from the gutter and the sewer.”
Hard-core pornography has been produced and distributed with money from the NEA. Selections included a naked woman performing self-induced abortions, several graphic lesbian sex scenes, ruminations on the pleasures of sadomasochism, and a monologue by one woman on why she decided to not slit the throat of her lesbian lover.
NEA had recently given a $20,000 literary fellowship to controversial author Leslea Newman whose most prominent literary work to date is the book “Heather Has Two Mommies.” The publication has infuriated a great segment of America who share Judeo-Christian values because of its advocacy of lesbian lifestyles and parenting as normal.
Not surprisingly, President Clinton has vowed to veto the 1997 Interior Department spending bill, sending it back to Congress for reconsideration, if Republican lawmakers refuse to fund the NEA.