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DATE: TUESDAY, April 2, 1991                   TAG: 9104020458
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

ROBERTSON GROUP CALLS ON ARTS CHIEF TO QUIT

The Rev. Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition demanded on Monday that John E. Frohnmayer resign as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts because of his agency's $25,000 grant for a movie that includes homosexual imagery.

"The NEA has slapped the face of every taxpayer in America by continuing to fund filth at a time when the government is going broke," Ralph Reed, the coalition's executive director, said in a statement released before he attended a special screening of the film at the NEA's Washington headquarters.

After seeing the movie, which is titled "Poison," Reed said he hadn't changed his mind. He said the film was "offensive, boring and silly," and contained two or three "clearly pornographic" scenes.

Frohnmayer defended the movie at a news conference Friday. NEA spokesman Jason Hall said Frohnmayer had no immediate response to Reed's call for his resignation. - Associated Press 


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