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I'm torn, Brothers and Sisters. Is this woman a hero for destroying the evil artwork (pictured below), or is she a heretic for assuming Jesus needed her help?
Kathleen Folden being arrested. Image: Reporter-Herald/Jenny Sparks
Wednesday afternoon, a Montana woman charged into a Colorado art gallery bearing a crowbar and a single purpose: To destroy someone else’s private property because she found it offensive. She succeeded in her goal.
“Hero” and “martyr” to some, over-the-road truck driver Kathleen Folden of Kalispell, Montana had read the newspaper accounts of the prints on display at the Loveland Museum/Gallery in Loveland, Colorado. She knew that a work by San Francisco artist Enrique Chagoya had brought protesters for the previous six days from the local Catholic church, St. John the Evangelist.
Donning a T-shirt proclaiming “My Saviour is tougher than nails”, Folden arrived at the gallery shortly after the Catholic protesters dispersed for the day. Wielding a crowbar, she charged into the facility, located the display case holding the controversial print, and began bashing the Plexiglas screaming “Filth! Filth! Filth!”.
Details, The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals. Offensive section, lower right.
Successfully breaking into the case, Folden tore off a foot-long section of the print which supposedly depicted a cartoon Jesus receiving oral sex from another man. Retreating into a corner of the gallery, muttering “How can you desecrate my Lord?”, Folden tore the section of the print into tiny pieces while awaiting the police. Upon their arrival, she lay on the floor with her arms spread, as if crucified, and waited to be arrested.
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The print was valued at $3,400, and copies may be purchased from Shark’s Ink. At present, the print’s page has been removed from the printer’s website. Folden has been charged with first-degree criminal mischief, which carries a fine of $1,000 – $2,000. Her $350 bail was posted by an anonymous person.
Folden’s attorney, Cliff Stricklin, commented today, “The focus has been on Ms. Folden here today and yesterday, but I think the focus should probably be changed a little bit and we should be asking why the City of Loveland would have deliberately endorsed such a provocative, insensitive depiction and display.”
What do you think of Folden and her actions? Is she a hero? Is she a heretic, proclaiming her Savior to be “tough as nails” yet assuming she had to protect an omniscient being from nasty pictures?
Considering the number of laws we need to protect God and His Word from heretics, I'm voting for HERO!
Kathleen Folden being arrested. Image: Reporter-Herald/Jenny Sparks
Wednesday afternoon, a Montana woman charged into a Colorado art gallery bearing a crowbar and a single purpose: To destroy someone else’s private property because she found it offensive. She succeeded in her goal.
“Hero” and “martyr” to some, over-the-road truck driver Kathleen Folden of Kalispell, Montana had read the newspaper accounts of the prints on display at the Loveland Museum/Gallery in Loveland, Colorado. She knew that a work by San Francisco artist Enrique Chagoya had brought protesters for the previous six days from the local Catholic church, St. John the Evangelist.
Donning a T-shirt proclaiming “My Saviour is tougher than nails”, Folden arrived at the gallery shortly after the Catholic protesters dispersed for the day. Wielding a crowbar, she charged into the facility, located the display case holding the controversial print, and began bashing the Plexiglas screaming “Filth! Filth! Filth!”.
Details, The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals. Offensive section, lower right.
Successfully breaking into the case, Folden tore off a foot-long section of the print which supposedly depicted a cartoon Jesus receiving oral sex from another man. Retreating into a corner of the gallery, muttering “How can you desecrate my Lord?”, Folden tore the section of the print into tiny pieces while awaiting the police. Upon their arrival, she lay on the floor with her arms spread, as if crucified, and waited to be arrested.
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The print was valued at $3,400, and copies may be purchased from Shark’s Ink. At present, the print’s page has been removed from the printer’s website. Folden has been charged with first-degree criminal mischief, which carries a fine of $1,000 – $2,000. Her $350 bail was posted by an anonymous person.
Folden’s attorney, Cliff Stricklin, commented today, “The focus has been on Ms. Folden here today and yesterday, but I think the focus should probably be changed a little bit and we should be asking why the City of Loveland would have deliberately endorsed such a provocative, insensitive depiction and display.”
What do you think of Folden and her actions? Is she a hero? Is she a heretic, proclaiming her Savior to be “tough as nails” yet assuming she had to protect an omniscient being from nasty pictures?
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