Hat tip to Fran Warner and Tom Lewis. They covered their artwork at the 13th Biennial Exhibition at the ARTSWorcester Aurora Gallery at 660 Main St(May 11-June 22, free and open to the public) when abortion industry giant Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts held a fund-raiser there last night. See Catholic Free Press 5/17.
Said Warner, "I plan on covering my work with a cloth in protest against the use of a 'free exhibit' to raise funds for something I am morally opposed to."
Warner's written plea to reconsider the Abortion Clinic Fundraiser was dismissed by ARTSWorcester executive director Janice Seymour, who said "The board's [ARTSWorcester] response was that they were dismayed Fran felt that way.". In a great Editorial, the CFP called Seymour's response "troubling, though typical."
As the CFP editorial saliently put it, ARTSWorcester and Seymour were "[n]ot dismayed to learn something new and terrible about the mistreatment of fellow human beings, but apparently dismayed that an associate felt bad about that. Such a response, however it is intended, smacks of the very narrow-minded paternalism that those who pride themselves on being open-minded condemn in others."
We've noticed this double standard in the Abortion Industry for years.
As Warner wrote in his letter to ARTSWorcester's Seymour, "Artists are supposed to be the people that help others to see the things that they would not normally see...We reflect on the beauty of life and sometimes the ugliness of the things that are diametrically opposed to beauty, life and truth."
Perhaps Seymour is really dismayed that Fran was being an Artist.
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