This Picture is Offensive!

In West Virginia, where it acceptable to have a Klansman as your senior senator; and, where people marry their siblings (presumably, to avoid having problems with their in-laws), some idiots got upset at this picture, which has been hanging in the Bridgeport High School (in Clarksburg, WV) for thirty years. Thirty fucking years! That is a generation and a half; and while I can imagine how painful it must be to see a picture of a gentle-looking white guy every day, I just don't see how this picture, hanging in a school (or anywhere else), can be offensive.

This picture, in a school, in its context, is no different than a picture of John F. Kennedy, or of Martin Luther King, Jr., both of which are iconic pictures to Irish and black families. In fact, there is little difference between having this picture in a school and a picture of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., or the Prophet, Mohammed. (Wait, you can't have a picture of the Prophet Mohammed, because the Muslims will get pissed off and burn down an embassy.) It is a picture of historic significance.

As a crass aside, Jesus probably didn't have as much sex as Kennedy, King, or Mohammed, so maybe that is the liberals' objection to the picture of Jesus. As a less crass aside, Jesus (last I checked) was Jewish, so what the hell problem do Jewish people have with a picture of a co-religionist on the wall. I mean if Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) had become our nations's vice president, his picture would have been hanging in government offices. Would the ACLU have a problem with that? Hmmm?

It is the most ubiquitous picture of the Christ in the world, and is, arguably, art. There were no signs that said, "Convert or Perish", "Jesus is Lord", or "Our Saviour." There was just a picture. And after thirty years, some asshat claimed that the picture violated the Establishment Clause of the US Constitution.

More amazing than that, they found some people who still think that the words "separation of church and state" appear anywhere in the Constitution.

Frankly, I would call the picture A Portrait of Jim Caviezel and call it a day.

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