Talk About Obscene

The Democratic Stimulus Bill that was passed a couple months ago handed out 80 million dollars to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

So what, you say?

Well, as it turns out, the NEA has handed out much of that money in grants to companies like CounterPulse and Frameline to produce porn. Yep, you heard right - YOUR money is being used to create more hard-core pornography.

Now some folks - particularly liberals - will say that people who are bothered by this are simply trying to censor free speech. Not so! If a company wants to create porn, fine. If a person wants to see it, fine. The problem that SANE people have with this is that they are using TAXPAYER MONEY to do it. And most taxpayers find that objectionable.

The government should never force Americans to become a party to anything that may violate their religious beliefs, or offend their conscience. In most religions, if you participate in any way, or stand by while a sin is being committed, you are considered to be as much a sinner as the person sinning. By using tax money for porn, every religious American is being forced to participate in creating pornography, and is violating their beliefs and offending their God.

That may be OK for atheists or liberals, but not for the remaining 82% of Americans. If atheists or anyone else wants to fund porn, no one is stopping them. But they have no right to force the rest of us into their leaky, Godless boat.

And that is exactly what happens when the government acts rashly and hastily, and our elected officials do not read the bills they pass (not a single Congress person read the stimulus bill - not one)! And that is what happens when we, the People, don't stand up and be counted.

And I thought the 3 million dollars to build a tunnel for turtles was absurd.

If anyone wants to see into the future, to see what America would be like with the government taking care of everyone, and national health care and other entitlements, take heart - there is already one group of Americans that have been "cared for" by the government for over 100 years. You can look at them and see the future of government care.

Who are these people? Native American Indians that live on reservations. No group of Americans has ever received more "care" from the government, and no other group has ever been in worse shape.

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