Posts Tagged ‘John Boehner’

April 24th, 2012

War on nuns

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At The Nation, Norman Birnbaum, professor emeritus at Georgetown University Law Center, rebukes the Catholic Church for its historical “unyielding insistence on the rule of men”; and more specifically, for its decision to reorganize the Leadership Council of Women Religious, an umbrella organization that represents eighty percent of American nuns.

December 2nd, 2010

Video removed from the National Portrait Gallery

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Yesterday morning saw the removal of David Wojnarowicz’s 1987 video A Fire in My Belly from the National Portrait Gallery’s “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture” exhibition.  This video (which can be viewed here) was deemed controversial for an eleven second clip of ants crawling across a small crucifix.