出于保守原因，海边的造反派又开始乱闹。这次，他们的道德攻击目标是一件西雅图尚未见到天光的的公共艺术。
你已经见识了一种保守主义，他们用一种离奇的方式去看不能预见的东西。他们也早已通晓一件城市滨水区的雕塑必定是令人不快的，下贱的，猥亵的。
这些批评家中的一些人甚至匆忙地猜测——荒唐的蹦出来的猜测——这件“问题”艺术品是来自一名叫LUIS的拉丁美洲男同性恋艺术家。
雕塑的名字叫“父子”。
它将被置入西雅图艺术馆的新雕塑馆，Myrtle Edwards馆的附近。这件作品将在父子的身体上标上钢字码，而他们伸出手臂，亲密地紧紧地站在一起。
每个雕塑将在眩目的喷泉水流形成的小瀑布下交替沐浴。这将使得父子被交替掩盖。公园的游客也将无法同时看到两个雕塑，因为总有一个被覆盖在水中。
这件作品无疑只是一副由它外观所述的父子雕塑。作品尖锐地探索了普遍的父子间关系。他们分享肉体空间，然而保持情感距离并掩饰弱点。
作品草图的信息走漏到一圈人当中，因而作品被扭曲成了败坏的事物，在那些惯于栖居当地广播讨论区这个洞眼里的人群中，它猛然成了恋童癖的标志。
Dori Monson—一个西雅图广播节目的主持人，是个不可靠的，自我为中心的右翼份子，他兴起了这次无端的关注。他在节目中搬出了他“全季风”式的虐待，触发了一些人旅鼠般地蜂拥乱窜，急着误传艺术家的本意。
在雕塑被敲敲打打之前，这些消极的地保们应该考虑至少一件，或两件，或三件事情，这足以改变他们的想法。
“父子”是从Louise Bourgeois心灵跃起的作品——并不是象电视访谈节目中所说的“Luis”——Louise Bourgeois是出生于法国的女艺术家，并非男人。Bourgeois在全世界享有盛誉，她探索不断出现的人类状态与关系。在20世纪90年代早期，她的艺术品在威尼斯双年展中出现，而威尼斯双年展是当代艺术国际展览中声誉最高的一项展览。
94年，Bourgeois严谨地对待工艺，不屑于价值不高，小打小闹，被称为是“艺术”的事物。并且她也抚养了她自己的儿子们。
Bourgeois的雕塑让专家的审查接踵而至，包括西雅图艺术馆的群众和西雅图城市居民对Stu Smailes遗产的异议——Stu Smailes，一名艺术爱好者，以自己的意愿为西雅图的一项艺术计划留下了100万美圆。
Smailes是一名保险业主管人员，非常赞赏各种艺术的杰作，包括古典英雄裸体，如在欧洲的米开朗几罗的大卫。他在2002年去世，但是他提出这项艺术品的规则：它必须是古典主义的，包含写实的裸体男性和一个喷泉。
“父子”将展现全部的这三条规则。
那么，我们又该如何解释这些愤怒与恐慌？
当我寻找一名艺术馆女发言人的解释时，它变得清楚了。她投下了一枚氢弹：同性恋。Smailes是一名同性恋者
那么我得出
所有的同性恋都是恋童癖。
一名支持特写裸体成年男子和孩童艺术品的同性恋男人在鼓动恋童癖。
一名年老的女性艺术家为其作品使用迷惑性的标题就是一种掩盖深层罪恶的聪明诡计。
多么扭曲的思考路线！
“我们不不宽恕恋童癖，也不宽恕任何艺术家这么做。” 美术馆雕塑园的艺术指导Lisa Corrin说。
Corrin又问道：“但是曾有母子为主题的艺术品引起这样的骚动吗？”
答案是无。
这里所发生的展示了当同性恋公开时受到的威胁——伴随着对恋童癖的恐慌——被规划进根本没有公开的性内容的艺术中
那些见识短浅但是占有行政和道德约束权力的人们用最坏的方式强奸了艺术。
而社会和艺术界却时间非常不充足地用情感的真理描绘父子间的联系。
这些人却没有同样嘘声四起地对待光明正大宣扬性的，含有穿着暴露的女孩们的艺术或广告。
请你设想这些人——尤其是右翼份子——如果他们欣然接受了偶然发生的，用艺术语言捕捉的事物——包含着父子之间生命中至关重要的联结，那事情会如何发展？
这是否才是家庭真正价值的所在呢？
（英语水平有限，如翻译有误，请指正）
原文如下：
The caped crusaders for the conservative cause are on the rampage again. This time, the target of their moral misfire is a piece of Seattle public art that hasn't even seen the light of day yet.
You've got to hand it to conservatives. They have an uncanny way of seeing the unforeseen. They already know that an installment of sculpture art coming to the city's waterfront is offensive, debased and sexually perverse.
Some of these critics even have rushed to surmise -- wrongly, it turns out -- that the "troubling" art comes from a gay male Latino artist named Luis.
The sculpture has a name -- "Father and Son."
It will be put in place in the Seattle Art Museum's new sculpture park, near Myrtle Edwards Park. The work will feature steel sculpture figures of a boy and his dad standing in close proximity, their arms outstretched.
Each figure will be alternately covered under a cascade of blinding fountain water. This will make it impossible for father or son to "see" one another. Park visitors also will not see both sculptures at the same time because one of the figures will always be under an aquatic dome.
The installment is believed to be the only father-son sculpture of its kind. The work explores the poignant, universal relationship of fathers and sons who share physical space and yet remain distant amid emotional nakedness and vulnerability.
Rough sketches of the piece are making rounds, which is how the work got twisted into something bad among those who inhabit the caves of local talk radio land. It suddenly became a totem of pedophilia.
Dori Monson -- a gaseous, me-centered right-winger who hosts a Seattle radio show -- has raised this concern on air. He gave the issue his "Full Monson" mistreatment, triggering a lemming-like stampede among others who have rushed to misrepresent the intent of the artist.
Before the sculpture gets pummeled any more, these negative nabobs should consider a thing. Or two. Or three. It just might change their minds.
"Father and Son" sprang from the soul of Louise Bourgeois -- not "Luis" as talk show airwaves said -- who is a French-born woman, not a man. Bourgeois is an artist respected throughout the world for exploring issues that revolve around the human form and relationships. In the early 1990s, her art was in the Venice Biennale, one of the most prestigious international exhibitions of contemporary art.
At 94, Bourgeois is serious about craft, one not given to trivial titillation that passes for art. She also has mothered sons of her own.
The Bourgeois sculpture made the cut after being vetted by experts, including people from the Seattle Art Museum and the city of Seattle and folks representing the estate of Stu Smailes -- he's the art lover who left $1 million in his will to Seattle for an art project.
Smailes was a Safeco insurance executive who appreciated art masterpieces, including classical heroic nudes such as Michelangelo's David in Europe. He died in 2002, but his will set forth rules for an art piece: that it be classical, include a realistic-looking nude male and have a fountain.
"Father and Son" will feature all three.
So, how to explain the anger and fear?
As I sought explanations with an art museum spokeswoman, it became clear. She dropped the H-bomb: homosexual. Smailes was gay.
Now I get it.
All gay men are pedophiles.
A gay man who backs a work of art that features a nude male adult and a boy is promoting pedophilia.
The use of an elderly female artist who uses a deceptive title for her work is just a clever ruse to mask a deeper evil.
What a warped line of thinking.
"We don't condone pedophilia nor would we condone an artist who did," says Lisa Corrin, the museum's artistic lead for the sculpture park.
Corrin asks: "Had it been a mother and child would it have caused such a kerfuffle?"
The answer is no.
What is happening here shows the danger of when public homophobia -- along with fears about pedophilia -- gets mapped into art that is no way overtly sexual.
People who are not fully informed but possess a political or moral agenda are sexualizing art in the worst way.
These same people don't say boo about art or ads with girls in skimpy outfits that scream out sex.
Society and the art world have a hard enough time portraying relationships between fathers and sons with emotional truth.
You'd think that folks -- especially those on the right -- would jump at the chance to embrace something that uses artistic expression to capture one of life's vital bonds, that between father and son.
Isn't this really what family values are all about?
