http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/27/barack-obama-jesus-cross-painting-the-truth-controversial_n_2199073.html?1354045267
If Obama is Christ, Grover Norquist is the devil, or perhaps the Great Oz, as represented in the same traveling show.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/27/grover-norquist-wizard-of-oz_n_2198484.html?utm_hp_ref=arts
Naturally, the Catholics are worked up about it:
Bill Donohue released the following remarks today:
Michael D’Antuono is a left-wing artist
known for exploiting racial tensions (e.g, depicting George Zimmerman as
a Klansman and Trayvon Martin as a generous child). But now he has
succumbed to a new low.
D’Antuono’s painting of President Barack
Obama with outstretched arms wearing a crown of thorns, against the
backdrop of the Seal of the President of the United States, is called
“Truth.” [Click here.] It is being hosted by the Bunker Hill Community College Arts Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts.
What makes this display so interesting
is the flat denial of truth by so many artists and academicians, as well
as their irrepressible hostility to Christianity. Yet when it comes to
their savior, President Obama, they not only pivot, they proselytize.
“Truth” was supposed to make its debut
on April 29, 2009 in New York’s Union Square; it was to commemorate the
first 100 days of Obama’s presidency. But D’Antuono withdrew his
masterpiece after being hit with angry e-mails. Now he is back,
apparently thinking that after Obama won reelection, the time is ripe to
witness his crucifixion. Imagine if his God had lost what our Christmas
gift would look like.
It is one thing for the Italian nativity
scene builder Ferrigno to include Obama as a figurine in this year’s
crèche (it has regularly featured public persons such as Princess
Diana), quite another for an angry artist to rip off Christian
iconography for the purpose of making a cheap political statement.
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