NEA gives stimulus money to porn groups

  The National Endowment for the Arts may be spending some of the money it received from the Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fund live pornographic shows at a gay and lesbian film house in San Francisco.
  The NEA was given $80 million of the government’s $787 billion economic stimulus bill to spread around to needy artists nationwide, and most of the money is being spent to help preserve jobs in museums, orchestras, theaters and dance troupes that have been hit hard by the recession.
  But some of the NEA grants are spicing up more than the economy. San Francisco’s CounterPULSE, a theater showing a “long-running pansexual performance series,” received a $25,000 grant in the “Dance” category. Similarly, the director of Frameline, the gay and lesbian film house, told FoxNews.com in an e-mail that they got a $50,000 grant to save jobs.
  “When you spend so much money in a short amount of time … you’re going to have nonsense like this, and that’s why the stimulus should never have been done in the first place,” said David Williams, vice president for policy at Citizens Against Government Waste.
  Williams said support for the arts is a luxury at a time when the president and Congress have been telling the public to make sacrifices to manage the recession.
  www.foxnews.com, 7/30/09