thanks for your contribution to Bob Jones University

[SCantiGOP]

If you are a South Carolina taxpayer you gave money to those vile fanatics this year. TheState.com has a database where they list all of the grants that handed out money in this years budget, mostly public building renovations, sewer upgrades, etc. This one caught my eye:

Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Inc. Greenville Support Renovations to the Museum & Gallery at Heritage Green to promote economic development and tourism. $50,000.00

There is no way in hell state money should for something like this, even if they do try to sell it as "economic development and tourism."

[styersc]

1. BJU has a history of hate.

But the works of art housed in the museum are a credit and asset to the upstate.

[junkiebrewster]

2. Agreed

BJU is an ass-backwards institution in what is otherwise a charming little town. However, they do have an excellent art collection, for some strange reason.

[nxylas]

3. Does it contain nude statues/paintings?

BJU is an "educational" institution for the sort of people who usually want things like Michelangelo's David banned on the grounds that they're obscene.

[junkiebrewster]

4. It's all religious art

so, I would imagine they'd allow Adam and Eve to be naked.

I went once to see their collection of Russian icons. It was quite impressive.

[nxylas]

5. I'd have thought they'd regard them as idolatrous

I'm Orthodox and I'm always being lectured by fundies about how icons violate the second commandment.