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Special ProjectsThe National Endowment For The Arts (NEA)The National Endowment for the Arts began in 1965 as a government agency without funding during its first year. Funding increased to $170 million a year before AFA became involved in the issue. In 1989 American Family Association (AFA) became aware of a grant to an "artist" to fund a photograph of a cross submerged in the artist's own urine.Since then there have been many examples of obscene and sexually explicit "art" depicting the homosexual lifestyle and denigrating Christ and the Christian religion. Using taxpayer dollars, Christ has been depicted as a drug addict and a pedophile. Some recent examples of taxpayer-funded art are: Christ as a homosexual who has sexual relations with his disciples in the theatrical play, Corpus Christi, that was performed at the Manhattan Theater Club in New York in the fall of 1998 A conference at New York University titled “Queer Publics/Queer Privates”, where a Drag Queen pretended to be a minister of the gospel named Saint Salicia and passed out pornography and denounced "fornication" A 1997 grant for a video by Women Make Movies titled “Bloodsisters”, which shows naked women beating each other with whips, blood dripping from bare breasts, gross body piercing and other scenes promoting the S& M lesbian lifestyle. Since AFA began asking congress to eliminate funding for the NEA, the agency's funds have been reduced to $100 million per year. Contrary to the argument of some, AFA does not believe that the elimination of the NEA is censorship. Great art has existed for thousands of years without governments funding it. Furthermore, AFA believes that artists should be free to produce what they want - but that taxpayers should not be forced to pay for it. Despite their promises to eliminate government funding for the NEA, Congress has refused to do so. There has been very little serious effort by our congressional leadership to discontinue taxpayer funding for this agency. AFA urges our supporters to contact their elected officials in Washington, D.C., and express their opinions concerning funding of the NEA. |
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