The painting depicts a Madonna, features a clump of elephant dung and is pasted with cutouts from pornographic magazines. The museum has sued to get the funding restored on the grounds that Giuliani is violating the First Amendment. Giuliani is likely to bid for a republican seat on the US Senate next year. He has appeared on the talk show scene to defend his decision. The debate is over a piece of art, which some people find offensive because of their religious beliefs.
Beliefs are beliefs and art is art.
Many things in this world are deemed offensive to one group or another and if everyone tries to please everyone, no one will be happy. It would be an exhaustive task to eliminate things that offend people. Art is a form of expression, if it offends you, don't go see it. Go see something else. The First Amendment grants us freedoms by restricting the government from taking away the rights of Americans.