Drama Llama

So, I am sure a lot of people know about the current contest [link] , and a few know about the drama that's surrounding it, the two main chunks of drama concern Shepard Fairey's currently ongoing litigation, and the primarily bible thumping view point of hating 'the gays' or at the least the 'sin' of being gay, or something to that effect.

It's the latter I want to address, since the former already has been, as well as the fact that I don't know much about Shepard Fairey's ongoing litigation.

It seems that most against this contest because of 'the gay' angle, are so because they consider homosexuality to be immoral, an abomination, or some other ridiculous statement to that effect.

I should note that, I am a Godless Heathen, an (Agnostic) Atheist, so I already know that my word is going to carry about as much weight as a feather in a storm, but I consider the morality of these particular people to be laughable, pitiful even.

My idea of Morality is thus, 'don't kill, don't rape, don't steal, don't unjustly imprison, don't torture... etc', in other words, my morality is very simple, don't deprive another person of their rights without their permission. To do so, I consider to be immoral.
Things like Proposition 8 I consider one of the highest forms of Immorality. Not only are the rights of others being voted on, but it's also made law, as well.

To that end, I consider those against this contest because of 'the gay' angle to be far more immoral than mostly any gay person that I know or know of.

If you are one of those people, and you have the misfortune of reading this piece of what you will probably call 'liberal propaganda', I'd suggest you take a good long look at yourself and your particular god, before you start telling people what you think is moral and immoral.

To state the painfully obvious, deviantART is an art website, so it stands to reason that most of the people here are artists or creatives in some form or another.
Historically and Generally speaking, artists and creatives have been and are known to be among the most 'liberal' groups of people in any given society.
This contest is a testament to that fact.

So, please, don't be surprised when such contests turn up, artists and creatives have a history of bucking the trend, particularly in socio-political issues. Art is a powerful motivator, is it any wonder that this contest has come to the largest art community in the world?