Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, February 18, 1991 TAG: 9102180345
SECTION: EDITORIAL PAGE: A/8 EDITION: METRO
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Consider the local scene where you recently reported on Andres Serrano's lecture sponsored by the Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts. At what was described as a well-attended function, Serrano discussed his photos of objects that included a crucifix in a jar of urine, menstrual blood and semen. By such sponsorship and attendance, some of our city's finest gave tacit approval to the forces of decay and perversion.
Not to be outdone, the Roanoke Times & World-News' Jeff DeBell described the event as "fun" and, incredibly, reserved his only disparaging comments for Sen. Jesse Helms, a legislator of moral convictions who fought unsuccessfully to crush tax-supported filth.
Like the frog basking in the pot of warm yet soon to be boiling water, America seems to be moving gradually yet inexorably toward the oblivion MacArthur noted.
DONALD R. TAYLOR
VINTON
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