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| Statue of Liberty as a Muslim? Painting in Rep. Lou Correa’s office sparks complaints |
| 2017-08-06 |
| [OCREGISTER] A student painting that depicts the Statue of Liberty wearing a Moslem hijab, displayed in congressman Lou Correa’s Santa Ana office, is being attacked as an unpatriotic violation of the separation of church and state by members of We the People Rising, a Claremont-based activist group that advocates stricter enforcement of immigration laws. The group, including several Orange County participants, has asked without success that Correa remove the painting hanging with other finalists from the Democratic congressman’s student art competition. Because of the complaint, Correa said he asked the House Office of Legislative Counsel for advice and was told there was no legal issue. That has not appeased the activists, who are tentatively planning a Sept. 11 protest at Correa’s district office. "It’s a bad example for our congressman," said Orange resident Mike McGertrick, an activist with We the People Rising. "He shouldn’t have anything religious in his office. ... I would like to see our Congress people be right-down-the-line patriotic." McGertick went farther in his condemnation during a July 3 meeting with Correa’s district director, Claudio Gallegos, calling the hanging of the painting in the office "reprehensible and disrespectful." "In this day and age, we want to see that our elected officials are the utmost of patriotism," McGertick says in a video the group recorded and posted on YouTube. Correa sees nothing objectionable in the painting, which comes at a time of controversy over Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s efforts to ban the entry to the U.S. of people from Moslem countries and about the treatment of Moslems in this country. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2017-08-06 17:40 |
| #3 I like the big eyes. Reminds me if those goofy Margaret Keane prints of the 80's. |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2017-08-06 12:47 |
| #2 Analogous to the Mohammedan cartoons, no? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2017-08-06 08:48 |
| #1 "She’s There To Wave Them In" |
| Posted by: newc 2017-08-06 02:05 |