That is why it's pushing to get images of naked children removed from a Texas art museum.
AFN reported earlier this month about an art display at the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.
It features an exhibit called, "Diaries of Home," which had several pictures depicting bare children, at least some of them in sexualized poses.
The Danbury Institute has been vocal in pushing to get the nude pictures removed. Sharayah Colter is the Institute’s chief communications officer. She gave AFN an update on what's happened since the story first broke.
"Well, the good news is that in the meantime, the local police there in Fort Worth have executed a warrant at the museum, and they have taken the images. I believe there's four in question that they've taken, and so they, there's an investigation ongoing, and the images are not viewable to the public during the investigation."
It's only four removed, though. The rest are still there.
The removed photos were the result of Republican officials who alleged the exhibit was promoting child pornography, according to KERA, a National Public Radio outlet in North Texas.
Tarrant County (Texas) Judge Tim O’Hare said the images amounted to sexual exploitation of a minor.
“I have full confidence in law enforcement to thoroughly investigate this matter and take appropriate action,” he wrote.
Museum stays mum
Colter would like to see the museum take some accountability.
"You know, the exhibit is only scheduled to go through part of February, so it's unclear to me whether the images could come back or whether they will just expire… We would like to see further resolution within the museum, acknowledging that it was not a good thing to have up. I’m certainly looking forward to hearing what we can find out from the police, but so far, a little bit of improvement, I would say."
Colter pointed to Danbury Institute's response to an op-ed put out in the Fort Worth Star Telegram. It defended the exhibit and brushing off arguments against it.
"It's a little absurd to me because not only can you, as a normal person, if you see those images, you immediately go, your innate sense of shame for them goes, 'they're uncovered, and this is not right'. Not only that though, but the museum itself had a plaque up that called the images in the exhibit 'suggestive' of the children, that they were put in suggestive situations. Then it went on to say that this was a way to show 'the dark side of childhood.'"
Sign the letter
People are outraged and continue to sign the Institute’s “open letter” to the museum, Colter said.
“We welcome people to go to danburyinstitute.org/museum and continue signing the letter and just continuing to say we want to speak up and have our voice heard that this is wrong. It's just wrong."
