Breast on Virginia state seal covered up...
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On May 2, 9:31 am, anon-e-moose wrote:
On 5/1/2010 1:49 PM, hk wrote:
Breast On Virginia Seal Covered Uphttp://tinyurl.com/3bd7q
Virginia's attorney general Ken Cuccinelli is hard at work on the
important issues of the day -- like making sure the Roman goddess
depicted on his state's official seal isn't exposing herself.
The current seal shows "Virtus, the goddess of virtue, dressed as a
warrior," with her foot resting "on the chest of the figure of
tyranny,
who is lying on the ground." She is holding a spear and her left
breast
is exposed.
Or at least it was exposed. At a recent meeting, Cuccinelli provided
pins to his staff with a new seal on which "Virtus' bosom is covered
by
an armored breastplate," the Virginia Pilot reported. These new pins
were not paid for by taxpayer dollars, Cuccinelli's office insisted.
The original state seal was designed by George Wythe, a signer of
the
Declaration of Independence, and was first adopted in 1776,
according
to
a Virginia state website. But so much for that.
"When you ask to be ridiculed, it usually happens. And it will
happen
here, nationally," University of Virginia political scientist Larry
Sabato told the Pilot. "This is classical art, for goodness' sake.."
And indeed, the mockery has already begun. "I'm outraged -- no
longer
can the Virginia state seal be the centerfold of the state seal
magazine," leading Virginia blogger Ben Tribbett joked to HuffPost.
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