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T. Gorton: “Personally, I think the NEA should probably have turned down that application at the time at which it was granted on the…”

On the recordSeptember 15, 1998
Personally, I think the NEA should probably have turned down that application at the time at which it was granted on the ground that it sounded as though the play was on no subject other than a very standard and Orthodox Christian theme which is perhaps inappropriate for funding by government. In any event, the National Endowment for the Arts has not funded the production of that play, might well have decided that it did not wish to subsidize anything else that the theater was doing, but certainly has not breached any of the requirements which Congress has laid down for the National Endowment for the Arts itself.
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T. Gorton
Republican · Washington
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Addressing criticisms of funding for the National Endowment for the Arts related to a controversial play.

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