Art Under Attack but taking offence doesn't mean one can

claim special rights, or the right to be rude, to defame, to insult, to censor, or threaten with  charges of sexual harassment.

Some people all too easily feel comfortable claiming sexual harassment because they don't like someone's art( As a REAL victim of abuse I find this to be a travesty but that's another story.

Art on Trial 

Here is what happened when one woman found this painting offensive and filed a sexual harassment complaint to the city legal department.

Gwen by Maxine Henderson
Link to Story

On Zoning and Free Speech
"Restrictions on workplace speech must be narrowly tailored to prevent arbitrary enforcement by government officials according to their own personal tastes (see also Zoning Laws and Artistic Expression)."


Is this obscene? As this site states "the definition is often in the eye of the beholder."  The Supreme Court set guidelines in 1973 and "makes clear that nudity alone does not make an image obscene."


Dave Kopel on Sex Harassment Nonsense
"Through the tool of "sexual harassment" complaint, a single person can impose her narrow tastes on an entire community." Also on the site there is a link to  "UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh website article Freedom of Speech vs. Workplace Harassment Law — A Growing Conflict, explains how workplace harassment laws are being used to stifle not only artistic expression, but religious, political, and other speech at the core of the First Amendment."




National Coalition Against Censorship




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