What's funny, though, is that these same people complaining about this may well complain about politicians wasting their time on foreign aid, or on whatever else (whereas this is an assault on the nation's moral fabric). Everyone thinks the government is wasting time/effort/money when it's not focusing on the priorities they themselves value.

I had a bit of context before looking at the video - knowing that it was essentially placed where it was because it was about AIDS, and society's treatment of AIDS victims (the artist died of AIDS). So it's not that we condemn suffering as unclean, but that we condemn sufferers as unclean. The words spoken on the soundtrack are from a biblical verse. That's what makes all of this ridiculous - the politicians are right here condemning it as unclean, after all. It totally justifies the anger felt by the artist.

I think the congresspeople were ready to be offended as soon as they saw "desire" and any hint of sex in the exhibit - that it was about gay people just made it extremely easy.