Congressional Issues 2012
MORALITY AND CULTURE
Cultural Agencies

• eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts,
• eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities, and
• defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

There are two issues here:

1. Is the government funding good and wholesome art, that really uplifts the national character?
2. Should the government be funding good and wholesome art, that really uplifts the national character?

The answer to both questions is "NO."

It is not the case that the government should stop funding pornographic and blasphemous "art" and start funding "good and wholesome" art; rather, the government has no business and no constitutional authority to fund any artists at all.

Why should the government fund what artists do for a living and not give checks to people who do what you do for a living?

• Where's Leni Riefenstahl when you need her? | J.D. Tuccille
• Kevin Craig Blog: Christmas on the Potomac

• The Separation of Art and State | David Boaz | Cato Institute
• Cultural Agencies Cato
• ARTS AND SOCIETY (CalifLP)
• Arts
• Culture and Media Criticism (13)
• Culture Campaigns
• Hollywood
• NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
• Politics and Humanities Don't Mix
• Ten Good Reasons to Eliminate Funding for the National Endowment for the Arts
• I Hear America Singing: The Arts Will Flower Without the NEA -- Policy Review, March-April 1997 -- Heritage
• Yes, You Can Be Pro-Art and Anti-NEA
• Exposing the NEA
• Family.org - CitizenLink - Same Ol' NEA
• The Injustice of Government Art (Oct 15, 1999)
• Focus on the Family Position Statement on the National Endowment for the Arts (May 26, 1999)