ClydeR
10-10-2010, 09:18 PM
Freedom of religion is going on trial in Colorado. I can already imagine what is going to happen. The jury will probably be filled with religiously intolerant people who convict this lady truck driver because of her Christian beliefs.
LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) - A piece of artwork denounced as obscene by church members and allegedly ripped up by a Montana woman using a crowbar won't be returned to display because of safety concerns, city officials said Thursday.
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Kathleen Folden, 56, of Kalispell, Mont., was arrested Wednesday on a charge of criminal mischief. Witnesses told police that she used a crowbar to smash glass shielding the print at the Loveland Museum Gallery and then tore part of it up.
Folden, a truck driver, told police that she drove from Montana and bought a crowbar in Loveland before going to the museum to destroy the artwork, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by The Coloradoan in Fort Collins.
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Jail officials said several people called the jail Thursday offering to bail out Folden.
Folden's attorneys indicated Thursday this will be a case about anti-Christian hate speech and religious intolerance.
"We look forward to representing Kathy. We're proud to represent her," said attorney Cliff Stricklin. "And we should be asking why the city of Loveland would have deliberately endorsed such a provacative, insensitive depiction."
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The artist, Stanford University professor Enrique Chagoya, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the work has been mischaracterized. He said while the part in question is suggestive, it's not graphic.
The panel includes figures cut out from a comic book, a head resembling Christ and a skeleton with a pope's hat.
"This is not Christ. It's a collage," Chagoya said. "What I'm trying to express is the corruption of the spiritual by the church."
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The work that was damaged, "The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals," is a 12-panel lithograph that that includes comic book characters, Mexican pornography, Mayan symbols and ethnic stereotypes. It is part of an 82-print exhibit by 10 artists that have worked with Colorado printer Bud Shark that opened in mid-September.
Members of a local church have been among those peacefully protesting outside the city-owned museum for most of the week. A city councilman and some residents had demanded that Chagoya's work be removed, but the council decided Tuesday to leave it on display.
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LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) - A piece of artwork denounced as obscene by church members and allegedly ripped up by a Montana woman using a crowbar won't be returned to display because of safety concerns, city officials said Thursday.
More... (http://www.wtop.com/?nid=114&sid=2072118)
Kathleen Folden, 56, of Kalispell, Mont., was arrested Wednesday on a charge of criminal mischief. Witnesses told police that she used a crowbar to smash glass shielding the print at the Loveland Museum Gallery and then tore part of it up.
Folden, a truck driver, told police that she drove from Montana and bought a crowbar in Loveland before going to the museum to destroy the artwork, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by The Coloradoan in Fort Collins.
More... (http://www.wtop.com/?nid=114&sid=2072118)
Jail officials said several people called the jail Thursday offering to bail out Folden.
Folden's attorneys indicated Thursday this will be a case about anti-Christian hate speech and religious intolerance.
"We look forward to representing Kathy. We're proud to represent her," said attorney Cliff Stricklin. "And we should be asking why the city of Loveland would have deliberately endorsed such a provacative, insensitive depiction."
More... (http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/25317909/detail.html?source=den)
The artist, Stanford University professor Enrique Chagoya, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the work has been mischaracterized. He said while the part in question is suggestive, it's not graphic.
The panel includes figures cut out from a comic book, a head resembling Christ and a skeleton with a pope's hat.
"This is not Christ. It's a collage," Chagoya said. "What I'm trying to express is the corruption of the spiritual by the church."
More... (http://www.wtop.com/?nid=114&sid=2072118)
The work that was damaged, "The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals," is a 12-panel lithograph that that includes comic book characters, Mexican pornography, Mayan symbols and ethnic stereotypes. It is part of an 82-print exhibit by 10 artists that have worked with Colorado printer Bud Shark that opened in mid-September.
Members of a local church have been among those peacefully protesting outside the city-owned museum for most of the week. A city councilman and some residents had demanded that Chagoya's work be removed, but the council decided Tuesday to leave it on display.
More... (http://www.wtop.com/?nid=114&sid=2072118)