Scripture and Arts Funding
August 9, 2009
I can’t get the radio interview with Minister Krueger out of my head. You expect politicians to talk out of their behinds half the time. But when the Minister in charge of funding for Arts and Culture starts to quote religious scripture I have to worry.
Listen here: http://www.scottwalker.ca/audio/Krueger-Walker.mp3
He quotes a Christian text that says, “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof”. I would have to argue with Minister Krueger that this is the most short sighted action he could take. Arts funding in our province is not just about today but about the future. Our community needs the arts to nuture its growth as a mature society. And his own ministry has come to the conclusion that for every dollar spent on Arts funding, $1.38 is created in taxes. So, how are we to take this action as anything but an attack?
This is the kind of backward reasoning that kept our society locked into religious dogma that persecuted queers for centuries.
