G. Wayne Clough now says he was too hasty on crucifix film
(NEWSER) - The head of the Smithsonian said he's now sorry he so quickly yanked a video from a museum exhibit featuring gay artists because of warnings by Republican Party leaders that it could trigger "budgetary consequences." It's "the most painful thing I've ever done," G. Wayne Clough told the Los Angeles Times yesterday after a presentation in California. He says he axed the video, Fire in the Belly, in part because GOP Congressmen John Boehner and Eric Cantor warned that taxpayer funds—which account for 75% of the Smithsonian's budget—could be cut because the video was viewed as anti-Christian. More»
