Link: https://www.them.us/news/south-carolina-arts-commision-ideology

The South Carolina Arts Commission (SCAC) voted to defund two LGBTQ-focused cultural organizations at a meeting on Thursday after forcing the groups to defend their merit in August.

At the meeting, the SCAC voted 5-3 to remove funding from the two organizations, the Greenville Gay Men’s Chorus and the Proud Mary Theatre Company. Though the funding had initially been promised to the groups, per the South Carolina Post and Courier, back in August, the commission required only the two LGBTQ-focused arts organizations to resubmit budgets and prove their “artistic merit.” These two groups appear to have been singled out of the nearly 180 the SCAC supports.

“I thank all the groups that have been involved in the process,” SCAC chairperson Flavia Horton said after the group voted to defund the two organizations. “The commissioners have been under a lot of pressure. There was pressure from the arts world, there is a lot happening. This has been a difficult process. I just want to thank the two organizations for all the work that you’ve done in resending us the documentation.”

She also thanked staff for their work during this “difficult situation for all of us.”

The meeting, which lasted only 20 minutes, was held on Zoom, allowing the public no way to directly confront commissioners during the vote.

Art means nothing. It never tells a human story, it is never political, has no gender, no race, no sexuality. It is not moving, not emotional, doesn't alter the human mind in any way.

I can only assume the other organizations are full of artistic merit and do all those things in an acceptable Christian straight way.

“She lusted after lovers with genitals as large as a donkey’s…”