Is the Virginia AG related to John Ashcroft?

[thewayne]

Apparently he is offended by the fact that the Virginia State Seal has the exposed breast of the Roman goddess of Virtue standing over a defeated tyrant, so he wants a breast plate put on her to make it PG.

I guess Virginia has no more criminals and he has nothing better to do.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/05/perhaps-in-an-effort-to-stop-earthquakes-virginia-attorney-general-covers-breast-in-state-seal.html

Oh, right! Stopping earthquakes!

WAIT! That means he's a MUSLIM!

Comments

[deborak]

Them's fighting words. GTFO my state, lol.

Actually, the covered-breast version of the seal is an alternate that is perfectly fine to use. Ken Cuccinelli was not the mastermind of some evil plot to have "a breast plate put on her." He used a version of the seal that was popular in the middle 180os which features the full armor. Probably so the anti-boobie brigade would leave him alone.

Stellar reporting as usual from the LA(me)TIMES. >_

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I just don't get why people have such a hang up on breasts and nudity in art and want to remove it all. Ashcroft's covering of the statues in the DOJ, etc. It's not like this is serious masturbation material.

[deborak]

It's not like this is serious masturbation material.

Yeah, far from it, especially for me. ;-)

There is a neat exhibit in the lobby of the VA Capitol building of all the different versions of the Commonwealth's seal. A version of the artwork was even on uniform buttons during the Civil War. I guess the mass-market ignorance of "journalists" is irritating me more than usual today because I just returned home from a historian's conference -- filled with knowledgeable folks.

[silveradept]

This probably wouldn't be much of a deal is Ashcroft hadn't done it to Justice before and that Virginia very unsubtly decided they didn't like LGBTQ people and would work to make sure they knew it.