Hoosiers Offended By Wedding Photo

[tannybogus]

Officials for the Indiana State Fair win today's WTF award. The pulled this wedding photo (click to embiggen), which was the state contest's highest-scoring picture, because, according to fair officials, people complained about its content. You know, because it's a...married couple sitting? The hell?

Photographer Randy Baugh says he's as lost as we are. "I went to the fair last Thursday with my wife, and we went to the exhibit, and the print wasn't there," he tells us. Baugh says he asked a fair representative what happened to the picture, but only after pressing the guy—and saying that he took the photo in question—did Baugh get an answer. "He finally told me they were getting four to six complaints a day, people saying stuff like 'it's smut' or that they wouldn't bring their daughter to see it," Baugh says. That was the first he'd heard that anyone objected to the picture. "I see more leg square dancing," Baugh says. "I saw more muffin tops and cleavage walking around at the fair." Baugh identifies himself as a conservative Christian, which is why, he says, the uproar—especially in the comments on the Indy Star's website—is even more baffling.

http://chicagoist.com/2008/08/18/hoosiers_offended_by_wedding_photo.php

Well, I'm shocked!
:yoiks:

[Deja Q]

1. Huh? Is she sitting on a grate? Passing gas? What??

Oh, wait, his hand is on her thigh. Hard to see with that billowing in the background drawing all that attention away from what's already shrouded by that pastry she's wearing...

[Gold Metal Flake]

2. it's obvious.

Her legs are apart.

Yup, stupid as hell but that would be the problem.

[Sal Minella]

13. What's more, the groom seems to be leading the bride into an early stage of sexual activity

of some sort. The photo looks as though she could well be (gasp) undergoing early sexual arousal! Oh noes! Cover the eyes of the children!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. It makes perfect sense to me that they would pull that trash.

By the way did I mention that my name is Mullah Mohammed Omar? I gotta go now and fill up the tank in my vespa.

[monmouth]

4. And here I thought it was the pic of the bride with enormous bazooms...sigh..This

pic is sorta arty in its own nice way. The nuptials are over, time to relax...Geez.

[RainDog]

5. yet one more reason not to live in Indiana

unless you're in Bloomington, and even then...

[Indenturedebtor]

12. Lol having lived in both it's better than AZ :P well indy and b-town

The rest of it can fall into lake michigan :P

[AlGore-08.com]

15. Thanks. My parents - - progressive Dems both - - live in Elkhart.

At least you spared the life of my brother, who lives in B'town... ;)

[Indenturedebtor]

16. Emperor Indentured Debtor is Magnanimous :P n/t

[saracat]

6. I think the picture is gorgeous! And the Hoosier Fair "censors" are NUTZ!

[OwnedByFerrets]

10. TY, I agree...nt

[Tangerine LaBamba]

7. I think it's just a lousy photo

I can see what the photographer was trying to do, the romance of the billowing veil, and all that, but her legs look awkward and ungainly and, for me, the picture fails.

But, for the bluenoses who find it offensive because her legs are spread, well, fuck 'em.

[jakem]

14. "because her legs are spread, well, fuck 'em."

LOL!

[Dreamer Tatum]

8. Good thing no one saw them a few hours later

Jesus, what freaking prudes. I think it's sort of a nice picture.

[OwnedByFerrets]

9. .....

fucking idiots wouldnt know an artistic portrait if it slapped them in their puritanic mouths.:puke:

[2KS2KHonda]

11. It isn't offensive, but it's pretty stupid. Looks like she fell on her ass!

Anyway, there's a reason the're called hoosiers.
:evilgrin: