Mark Souder: “some of what I have to say here this afternoon is not going to be very comfortable to hear, and it is, quite frankly…”

“some of what I have to say here this afternoon is not going to be very comfortable to hear, and it is, quite frankly, pretty uncomfortable for me to come forth and to talk about this directly. The poster my colleagues see beside me, and I will refer to this a number of times, is about a play called ``Corpus Christi.'' This is representing Jesus Christ. This is the Apostle Peter, his supposed homosexual lover. This play depicts all the Apostles as the homosexual lovers of Christ. The reason that this is of concern to me is not because the Government directly funded it, because we did not, but because through the National Endowment for the Arts we funded this theater before the play and we have continued to fund this theater after they insulted those of us who believe that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior. They continued to insult us by funding this theater that did this play, among others. I want to put this in a little bit of context.”