Anti Federalist
03-26-2010, 02:29 PM
Buried in this story...
http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2010/03/20/PH2010032001742.jpg
In this photo taken Jan. 30, 2010 in Houston and provided by Jack Potts, a photograph by his 10-year-old son Jackson Potts II depicts a nightstick-wielding policeman beating a child. The image has sparked religious controversy and was excluded from an exhibit depicting the Stations of the Cross. To Jackson, a talented 10-year-old Houston photographer, and some art lovers, the disturbing image is simply religious symbolism. Jackson's younger brother Diedrich, 7, played the fallen Christ-child role
Texas church bans child's photograph of Passion
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/20/AR2010032001723_2.html
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But when Jackson submitted the finished piece, he was told it wouldn't be shown.
Church elders said they thought the photograph would scare young children who trust and respect police officers, some of whom are also church members. Elders said they also wanted to be sensitive to a congregation member whose mentally impaired son was fatally shot by police around this time last year.
http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2010/03/20/PH2010032001742.jpg
In this photo taken Jan. 30, 2010 in Houston and provided by Jack Potts, a photograph by his 10-year-old son Jackson Potts II depicts a nightstick-wielding policeman beating a child. The image has sparked religious controversy and was excluded from an exhibit depicting the Stations of the Cross. To Jackson, a talented 10-year-old Houston photographer, and some art lovers, the disturbing image is simply religious symbolism. Jackson's younger brother Diedrich, 7, played the fallen Christ-child role
Texas church bans child's photograph of Passion
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/20/AR2010032001723_2.html
-snip to the money quote-
But when Jackson submitted the finished piece, he was told it wouldn't be shown.
Church elders said they thought the photograph would scare young children who trust and respect police officers, some of whom are also church members. Elders said they also wanted to be sensitive to a congregation member whose mentally impaired son was fatally shot by police around this time last year.