Cartoonists' Sketchbook
September, 1990
They say the debate is about Government funding: Should the Government pay for things that some citizens find obscene, offensive or blasphemous? Of course it should. It paid for the Meese commission, nuclear weapons and part of Pat Robertson's campaign for President. That is the nature of pluralism.The real debate is about whether or not artists--those private-sector practitioners of free expression--should be allowed to include sex in the palette of human experience. Why should sex be the one a...
