I’m an artist,I paint and draw nude figures and I’m a christian!I have lived with christians all my life together with diffirent religions but i’ve rarely experienced such rebuke on art or seen one like from Texas. But peoples abuse their right to sue anyone they dislike.Where I live if a neighbor hates the color of your front door and finds it annoying he’ll call the police and charge you of being an irritant display.Probably too conservative are the parents.Long ago people don’t mind nudity. Artist wake up and celebrate human body beauty, make more of them.Lastly which “good Christians” are you referring to? Martians, I don’t see anyone of your description. And correction too, it was the hindus who said the earth was flat not the christians, and we don’t believe the earth is the center of the universe neither of the solar system. There may be dumb christians but not everyone of them and so with other people too, so don’t generalize them.

Oh,you’re awake,the good part was the dream. ;\

yes, things are bigger in TEXAS… morons case in point

Ahhh Texas! You have to wonder if they thought about censoring George W’s last name when he was Governor.
Maybe if the teacher took her class to a book burning, she’d be Teacher of the Year.
What a shame that mediocre parents can manipulate mediocre adminstrators to chop down an exceptional teacher at the knees.

What those good Christian Americans need is to be more like the Muslims! They don’t allow ANY representation of the human body—and the strictest don’t permit pictures of animals either. Something about the haram nature of graven images, being impermissible to attempt to recreate Allah’s work, that sort of thing.

I recently got back from holiday in Europe, and in the Middle East wing of the Louvre you won’t see much of anything modern that shows faces. Just geometric patterns. Lots and lots of intricate, colourful geometric patterns. The one part of a French museum where Christians would be happy to bring their children…

Next up—Texas teacher fired for bringing children to a museum with a display about humans evolving from apes. Or with an exhibit that shows the Earth NOT being at the centre of the universe. (Bible says it IS!) Or fired for having a globe in their classroom. Good Christians know the Earth is FLAT!

With the current adminstration what more could we expect, after all, Mr. Ascroft had the same problem....

Go to this Tom Paxton (remember him?) link and select to listen to “Spirit of Justice”

http://www.tompaxton.com/download.html

i would say apparently the parents were not doing their job. i know if i was signing my child’s permission slip to go to this event i would first check and see which exhibits the art museum was displaying. Call this another case of where an American is not taking responsibility for their own actions. Put the blame on some one else. Sadly, it is not a corporation being held accountable for some one else’s lack of parenting skills, but a teacher.

let see....

it is the fact that sex/nudity is so hidden that it becomes perverse/neurotic/explosive

parents have no faith in their children..which makes their children even more childish

they wish to ‘protect’ them..but really they wish to be the only REAL input in their lives...how original

the modern group .. workplace/school is mostly a herd...a bunch of individual bumbing into each other for a few moments then going on their way

the group has no sense of itself or its affect

and the bigger the group the dumber it becomes

modern society being the primay example
it has no ability to change direction because it has no sense of itself as a whole

Great opportunity. Provide moral support to religious-fundamentally-fcuked-ones to bleep out their genitalia in real life. Offer them free swiss army knifes.

I hope that teacher sues the pants off of that school.  Get it?  “sues the pants off of the school...” hehehehee

In the 60’s, some of us really believed that this pathetic backwater of a country would finally be able free itself from the chains of its Puritan past. But thanks to the Good Christian trogs on the right, we’re once again back to the future, fighting the same ludicrously sex-phobic battles that we fought in the 20’s in the heyday of Anthony Comstock and other champions of Decency in the Arts.

No author, no painter, no museum, no movie house, no school or public library was safe from the righteous armies of censorship. As a result, we became the laughingstock of the civilized world. Yet here we are again---proof once more (as if proof were needed) that Americans learn nothing from their past.

Do we really have to repeat the same tired arguments for the morons out there in the Lone Star State? The nude human body should be celebrated, not condemned, as the work of its Creator, nudity is not intrinsically erotic (except to the prurient), blah blah blah.

But really, why pretend that these cretins can be engaged in a serious debate? It’s time to thin out the herd. The principal and superintendant should be summarily drawn an quartered, and the “concerned” parents should be sterilized to ensure that their line never again be allowwed to pollute the gene pool. Sometimes there’s nothing likea good stiff dose of fascist eugenics to set things right.

The now-defunct Spy Magazine once rated Texas as “The Worst State in the Union.” Thanks to the yahoos at Wilma Fisher Elementary for providing one more reason for that honor.

Americans are absolute MASTERS of the art of making “MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.”

It’s pathetic.

It is really sad what’s become of this once geat nation. I hope to wake up and it will all have been a bad dream......

Once reading this astonishing article from Texas, it’s not too difficult to grasp why Dubya’s eyes are a little crossed when he gets highfalutin’ in political discourse on TV. He’s probably thinking about why did God exactly, make people naked under their clothing. It’s just not true that if millions of folks have witnessed something natural and then one person complains, actually a juvenile who doesn’t know any better, then all of the world’s past needs to be hung out to dry so that the cogs of ignorance and shame can run smoothly once again. I’m left with a sense that nothing can be done about Texas; that tumbleweeds blow through people’s brains out there, and innocent children are being made into mentally dry riverbeds, due to some sort of twisted morality that could stand shoulder to shoulder with reactionary contempt for human beings any where else on planet earth. Does a cowboy hat fit under a KKK hood? It would appear so. It occurred to me that, one would think no complaints would be heard if all the art works were...,well, white, like Jesus on the cross. Maybe the actual upset is that the Museum was so full of Pagan stuff. Good Christians don’t have naughty bit parts, like pagans, they’re all fitted out with blessed neuteries, just like GOD.

Now, THIS is grounds for a lawsuit.

But you wonder if any dedicated and talented teacher would want to have anything to do with such stupid employers. Every teacher has to deal with insane parents, but when the management is similarly narrow-minded and prudish, you’ve got to wonder if it’s worth continuing in such a system.

There are wonderful juridictions in other places that would be overjoyed to have her.