Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano at the Corcoran. The anti-religious assault continued unabated. We saw hours of reports about the mad cultists in Guyana when the People's Temple imploded. The media shills relentlessly pounded the drum when Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart were outed as charlatans. Oral Roberts became a laughingstock when he threatened to shuffle off the mortal coil unless he got a few million dollars in lunch money.
Nobody let up on the religious community.
By time they were done, the media had most of secular America believing that the face of modern religion belonged to Tammy Faye Bakker. Wars have started over less. Salman Rushdie is still a hunted man because he dared hint that Mohammed was imperfect. Yet the figure venerated by Christians as the savior of mankind is variously portrayed as a homosexual, a drunk, a burned-out loser, and a letcher. And nobody objects.