Christian Democrats in the United States
Conceptual Issues - CensorshipWe believe no statue, newspaper cartoon, or poopy painting has any power over God, so why waste our time worrying over some temporary fad of art? If we don't take it too seriously, all art is capable of expanding the symbols of our collective conversation, and overall, this is the only means of progress. We believe this cultural progress, based in free expression, is worth funding the occasional piece of offensive art. There is no good way to draw lines around what offends and does not offend other people. God may be offended, but we believe that if God is offended, then God will work it out with the artist personally. Faith is always a personal choice, and is invulnerable to the belief and expression of other people.
We certainly believe that no one, anywhere, should suffer punishment for free expression and association that does not commit, incite or plan harm of others and does not depict the most heinous crimes against real people, in which case, all but investigative viewing would continue the original crime. Certainly, no one has a right to kill or imprison someone for their artistic or journalistic expression, and we object whole-heartedly to any state that endorses such actions.
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]censorship presumes government can define morality - it cannot
[ California Assembly passes resolution for Cuss Free Week - http://www.mercurynews.com/search/ci_14470806 ]James said no man can tame the tongue. It's not our fault that our brains are simian, or that political parties and pundits prod us to be so angry that we cannot sing with our prosodic cortex instead of cussing at every red light. It is not government's place to judge - by interfering against freedom of speech where it cannot justify itself, government tries to substitute itself for that highest object of the inner mind. So, don't cuss, if you believe that will better your relationship with the Lord or with those you know and love, but don't do it for the idiots in Sacramento. The financial doom that these people brought to the Golden State is not a joke.
On a deeper level, besides distracting us from the financial issue by riling our anger over a trifling but fundamental insult to freedom, the state Assembly seek to supplant the abstract ideals that any thinking being would strive for, with their own sanitized and shallow morality. This pedantry they flap in our faces serves the personal interest of politicos drinking thousand-dollar bottles of wine and spending donation money on escorts for the after-party in the hot tub with the fat old guy lawyers. They shovel truckloads of it into the vacuous textbooks of letters and arts in public education.
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