Mr Green of the "Museum of the Bible" has made himself deeply unpopular in the USA by the intrusive way in which he has been declaring his beliefs about how other people should conduct themselves and
even how they should plan their families. Now he is coming in for some scrutiny for his own life choices, in
buying antiquities and the company he keeps. Take this example of being photographed by one of his employees among
what many would consider some excruciatingly bad taste home decor in
Houston, spotted initially by Roberta Mazza.
Mr Green has been depicted by
Gary Vikan as "still learning" about the responsible collecting of antiquities when he met him. A museum of the Bible professionals twitter feed pictures him "still learning" about wildlife conservation. The public use of these images is surprising, coming hard on the heels of
the "Cecil the Lion" furore and
coverage of the Trump sons and their rifles. We trust that the the "decorative trophy tusks" are 1920s bakelite, and the disturbing "take me from behind Simba" shot with the "stuffed tiger trophy wine glass stand" and the "dead cheetah doorstop" are with fibreglass replicas. I wonder whether the collector was there considering getting a whole load of stuffed slaughtered animals to illustrate
the conservative interpretation of the text of
Genesis 1:26. Still one wonders whether there are any limits to this sort of
insensitivity by the staff and sponsors of this controversial "museum".
The older woman in the photo looks rather like Jan Duncan, widow of the
controversial US hunter Dan Duncan. Surely the owner of this residence has a corner of the hall where there was an ormolu clock or a showy flower arrangement to act as a more acceptable backdrop to the posed photos. Or was the house stuffed full of slaughtered wildlife?
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