Statue of David considered obscene in Indiana
 

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssen...l/11288390.htm
Posted on Fri, Apr. 01, 2005
From The Associated Press

EDINBURGH — The Venus di Milo had better wear a top, and Michelangelo’s David should put on some pants if they’re going to be seen at a yard art business.

Bartholomew County officials told the business near Interstate 65 that it must move cement copies of the classical statues – and about 10 others – out of public view because they are obscene under Indiana law.

“It’s not fair to point out our business, and personally, I don’t find them offensive,” Ginger Streeval, a co-owner of White River Truck Repair and Yard Art, told the Daily Journal of Franklin for a story Wednesday.

Frank Butler, the county’s zoning inspector, disagreed.

“They have nudity ... and that should not be in the view of a minor,” he said.

Indiana’s obscenity law prohibits the display of nudity where children might see it, he said.

The law also stipulates that such material is harmful for minors if, “considered as a whole, it lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value for minors.”

The sheriff’s department and zoning officials cracked down on the business about 25 miles south of Indianapolis after receiving two complaints about the statues.

But Ken Falk, legal director for the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, said nudity has been part of art for hundreds of years and that using nudity to define obscenity could raise constitutional questions.

“Just because something is nude doesn’t mean it’s obscene,” he said. “If that were the case, most Renaissance art would have to be put into back rooms or hidden.”

This is a perfect example of why there are people in this country who just need to be banned. David? Obscene? Go eff yourselves you self important SOBs.:rolleyes:

My mother has always had a 4 foot marble statue of David (she bought in Italy) in our living room all our growing up years. Everytime we moved (dad is AF), it was a BIG worry that David was crated correctly and moved with care. You should have heard the jokes made by the movers ;)

Back in high school I had an Italian trumpet instructor who in his living room had a David statue.....with a little hankerchief around him :)

http://david.rochberg.com/steel/lega...-LTV-thumb.jpg

That's obscene. They should put a hanky over Gary.

That David statute could possibly be banned, since it is embarassing to all normally endowed males. It surely violates "truth in advertising" laws in the Hoosier state.

Is Gary and the vicinity still called "the region"?

Oh, for God's sake. It really bothers me the way Americans are so uptight about things that don't amount to a hill of beans.

Hell, at My Age, the only thing that looks like the statue is my teeny weeny.:(

Do Rightous freaks are getting scarier!:rolleyes:

Art from ages is Art. My Art is Farting in some of their Faces!;)

I would venture to say, that most of these crainal rectoses Moroons have never been in a Museum.:mad:

Wow. What a bunch of uncultured retards. It's not even about morals, it's about not appreciating a work of art that was around for hundreds of years.

(and I bet some kids have even seen worse...)

reeeeeeeee diculous.

Talk about uncultured......:rolleyes:

Quality post.