OK. I have to rant

OK. I have to rant about something else right now. Bill Donohue and the Catholic League bug me to no end. These folks regularly make civil rights issues out of cases where none exists. If a private, Protestant university wants to sponsor some homoprop art show that makes fun of the Holy faith, we look stupid shouting "unfair." If this is how Princeton wants to be identified, then so be it. We already have ample evidence that this is another lightweight institution resting on its laurels (the funny case of the middle age man who fraudulently gained admission is a great example, but they also have Peter Singer and Cornel West). So they have a code of conduct that technically forbids this. So they are selective in violating it. Who cares if they make us feel bad? What business do we have there anyway? This is not a public institution, although they probably get some Federal money.

By turning it into a civil rights issue, we guarantee that they will play tit for tat, and use our doctrine against us if we want our institutions to get Federal money.

The long and short of it is that we want to them to change their tune, but not because they make us feel bad. We want them to see the truth and change because of that conversion.

We would be much better served if Donohue, rather than bitterly weeping at the various garbage art exhibits out there, worked to promote truth, beauty and good in art and let the garbage be seen for what it is. How many times has he brought undue attention to some silly exhibit that would have gone unnoticed (and been unprofitable) had he kept his mouth zipped?

Why doesn't the Catholic League sponsor shows in these towns of the right kind of art. Given a choice between more elephant turds, more piles of candy and good Catholic art, I would bet money where the crowds would go. The artgoing public is dwindling, and it is because it is sick of being talked down to by insufferable idiots wielding jargon-laden artspeak and acting superior. Then these curators and assorted art thugs would have to argue that their garbage is in the corner of the common man, while the common man is patronizing a different gallery.

Instead we get more hysterical whining from old Bill. Does anyone know the league rules? Can we trade him?