Cobb lawmakers are shocked - SHOCKED - by AIDS art exhibit at KSU

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“Typically, communities send their garbage to the dump and dispose of their body waste at the local sewage treatment plant... KSU has chosen to celebrate and elevate it to an ‘art’ exhibit. Trash is trash. I think it speaks for itself.”

— State Sen. Lindsey Tippins, R-Marietta, opines to the Marietta Daily Journal about Kennesaw State University’s “Art AIDS America” exhibit. The exhibit includes paintings Robert Sherer, an artist and KSU professor whose work includes pieces made with HIV-positive blood, along with pieces critical of former President Ronald Reagan’s response to AIDS in the 1980s. State Rep. Earl Ehrhart, R-Powder Springs, said the exhibit was “sickening” and “a blatant political statement.” Ehrhart chairs the House committee that oversees higher education and hinted that he would prevent such an exhibit from being displayed again.

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