AP: Texas Lawmaker Removes (Anti-Death Penalty) Artworks

[Hissyspit]

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Mar 14, 5:16 AM EDT

Texas Lawmaker Removes Artwork

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A state lawmaker removed two pieces of art from a Capitol exhibit organized by a group opposed to the death penalty because he found the images inappropriate and objectionable.

Rep. Borris Miles, a Houston Democrat, took issue with a painting of a man hanging from a rope and an illustration of a man tied to an electric chair with the inscription "Doing God's Work." "We should not prevent the display of art," Miles said Tuesday. "But there have to be limits."

Miles said in an e-mail to his House colleagues that he encountered the images while walking through a hall of the Capitol Extension on Monday with his children, ages 5 and 8.

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"Nobody has a right to take down what they don't like. (Miles) overreacted and should have gone through the proper channels" to remove the work, Cobb said.

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[youngdem]

1. They touch a nerve, Mr. Miles?

And what a wonderful bit of Orwellian doublespeak, Mr. Miles...."We should not prevent the display of art," Miles said Tuesday. "But there have to be limits." Well played, asshole. You sure you aren't a Republican?

The art sounds right on point, which is why he probably freaked out. What a moran.

[FuzzyDicePHL]

2. What next?

Draping bare breasts on statues?

[LiberalFighter]

3. Could he get away with having "Lick Uranus" ????

[Javaman]

4. Nothing like our law makers upholding free speech, huh?

more of the "I don't know much about art but I know what I like!", crowd.

A houston democrat...oxymoron.

[Miss Chybil]

5. They just love the death penalty,

as long as they don't have to look at it.