A sculpture designed to symbolize seven people “relying on each other” has been moved from a courtyard at Adrian City Hall in Michigan this week after several residents and one angry preacher deemed it “disgusting” and an “abomination,” believing it resembled a gay orgy.
Mark Chatterley’s “Blue Human Condition” was only unveiled as part of the city’s public art program last week, but has already ben dubbed “The Orgy Statue” by local residents and papers. Though the seven figures in the sculpture are not anatomically correct or engaging in any type of sexual behavior, city officials moved it out of obvious public view because some savvy Michigan residents presumed it implied “genital contact.”
Local pastor Rick Strawcutter of Adrian’s The Church of Bent Oak uploaded a video to YouTube, proposing that the placement of the statue and the city commission voting in favor of an anti-discrimination ordinance were somehow connected. The sculpture, according to Strawcutter, was made to “enshrine perversion and abomination in a protected status.” City officials are apparently “leading Adrian to Sodom.”
Chatterley, along with the city officials that voted in favor of placing the statue, saw nothing sexual in it. The reaction shows “what people are really thinking about,” he told HuffPo.
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The sculpture was moved to its new home in Yew Park on Tuesday, outside of the view of passersby. Chatterley noted that placing a tarp over the sculpture during relocation made it all the more erotic.
“I think they’re hiding the piece, to be honest,” he said.
Watch pastor Strawcutter’s response to the sexless sculpture below:
http://youtu.be/tc8Fx4ryZfQ
ingyaom
Looks pretty gay to me.
Will L
Hmmm I don’t see anything particularly sexual about this. At the same time, I don’t see seven people “relying on each other” either. This is simply a lousy piece of junk art. If it’s made of bronze maybe they can scrap the metal to recover some of their cost.
LubbockGayMale
All I can say, dirty is in the mind of the beholder, sir! And your mind is in the gutter if you think that statue has any kind of sexual intent! The Constitution does protect your insensitivity, stupidity and religious beliefs from being outlawed, yet you feel you can outlaw others beliefs and feelings. THERE IS NO GAY AGENDA, except we wish to be treated as equals.
hyhybt
Nothing sexual about the statue, but I can certainly see how someone who was already worried over the subject would see it that way. Especially knowing a few people in the Adrian area.
DickieJohnson
LMFAO – this whole holy-roller anti-gay pro-discrimination issue is getting even more farcical with time. I wish there were one big Nutcase Blog where all of them could comment. Maybe not; we might die laughing.
AxelDC
Too bad the British sent all their convicts to Australia and all their prudes to America.
Billy Budd
It is exactly like a Rorschach test. If you see an orgy take place, it means you have orgies on your mind. These religious bigots are the real perverts.
sejjo
So these anal-retentive preachers and regressive humanoids know what a gay orgy looks like? Hmmm.
Billy Budd
I’ve participated in an orgy once (only once) and it was not like that. An orgy is much less orchestrated and occupies much more space.
hephaestion
Good to see that all of America’s brainless goobers are not in the South.
toberlin
I take it…live close to the Mauerpark.People gonna love it here
gayspud-1
nothing gay about it.goes to show how prudish people can be.wake up its
the 21st century not the 14th century
hyhybt
@AxelDC: Georgia was originally an alternative to debtor’s prison, and if I remember correctly, Michigan largely came from later immigrants, Germany or Norway or some such place.
Mezaien
That is ART! some Christian, won`t and will never get it white Christian it. We got them in Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and Belgium. Send the white Christian back to Europe.
Large Marge
Oh boo hoo Nancy Drew! Unbunch your panties and let the girls out because they could be looking faaaaabulous!
crowebobby
Oh, please!!! Two look like they’re getting bj’s, and one not only looks like he’s giving head, but also sitting on a dick while he’s doing it. I guess the one on the far right could be considered a lookie-loo (however that’s written). I’m as gay as anyone in America, but let’s not blow too much smoke up each others asses.
EGO
At first glance it may seem sexual but a closer look shows that it is not. Of course, Adrian is a small town and it takes awhile for education/information to get there. :>)
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Looks to me like a scene from room 3015 at the Hilton during the recent CPAC convention in DC……………………………..