The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery quickly removed a video Tuesday that was part of an exhibit after complaints from a Catholic group that the images were sacrilegious.
The offensive video featured ants crawling on a cross. The Catholic League President Bill Donohue said that the depiction was "hate speech" and designed to insult Christians.
After he was alerted to the piece Monday night by a New York Post reporter, Donohue began a campaign to urge Congress to cut public funding for the Smithsonian museum complex, he told The Associated Press.
"This is not the first time the Smithsonian has offended us," he said. "I'm going to cast my net much wider. Why should the government pay for this? ... How dare they take our money to fund attacks on (our religion)."
While he is correct that the Smithsonian is partially funded by the government to pay the staff and its facilities, the exhibits themselves are actually privately funded. It could be anyone. Maybe the guy that invented Asus, or Bill Gates, or you.
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