BYU Conservative Art Controversy

I feel art has always been a fun instigator of controversy and BYU seems to mix the palette from time to time. BYU has recently censored art for being too conservative. That is right, too conservative. This showed up in the headlines and I figured, what do they think is too conservative? It is a private christian university with about five young democrats and located in Provo, Utah, a stop sign red state.

I found an artist's webpage who had his art pulled. I can understand why he would be upset, loss of revenue from sales in the school bookstore. Let me offer my condolences to him. You will probably have more sales of your work this upcoming week than last year combined. Free publicity has that effect. Plus, you know armageddon is coming when a conservative university is taken over by the current liberal, left wing educational system in America. I think it says it in Revelations somewhere.

So I wanted to check out what was too conservative for BYU. Here is a picture, here is a link to his site and below are the highlights from one of the paintings in question.

We are free to worship as we please
but, if you are not Christian, we are going
to try and teach you how God made this
country greater than yours. 

This said Supreme Court Judge at the top.

This lady looks crazy.

This is my favorite quote.
At the beginning it explains how
the professor is part of the liberal
brainwashing machine known
as higher education in
America.

It is difficult for this lady to have
standards in the business world.
She wants lower taxes for herself
and less government regulation
in her public life unless the government
is going to bailout and save her bank
because of misplaced speculation
on the United States housing market.

Now you know a little more about the conservative censorship controversy or the CCC, I hope you realize one thing. People need to be more open to differing viewpoints. BYU would not need to censure art exhibits if folks calmed down and were willing and able to understand that the painter of this painting believes in certain things I personally do not agree with. It is opinion not fact and it all depends on perspective. BYU should shift perspective to Jimmer Fredette. It is something everyone can agree on!

I offer advice to the BYU art people. Host a communal communist cartoon project, or CCCP for short. I think it will be a real hit and the press release can talk about "including all viewpoints," and "proletariat brushstrokes inspired by the bourgeoisie."