Given the abysmal moral record of artists, it is not at all surprising that so many great actors and directors also should be morally incompetent. Jane Fonda, a great actress, saw goodness in communism and evil in America's war against it. Brilliant director-writer Woody Allen still sees nothing wrong in his having had sex with and marrying the young daughter of his longtime companion, Mia Farrow. The acclaimed director-producer Robert Altman proudly identified himself as anti-American while America led the fight against civilization's greatest threat -- Islamic fascism. Ed Asner, a fine actor, has supported virtually every communist regime America has opposed. The number of morally inane comments from Hollywood greats and mediocrities is almost endless. In the relation between artistic greatness and immoral ideas, Hollywood has quite a few Richard Wagners.
Only those who worship art should be surprised. And there are many of them. With the demise of the worship of God in Europe, secular Westerners began to worship new gods, most especially art and artists. This explains why so many people have asked how Germany, which produced Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, could also produce gas chambers -- as if producing great composers should in some way raise the moral level of that society.
So the next time you see "artists for" or "artists against" some cause, without reading any further, you can pretty much bet your mortgage that whatever it is they are for or against, they are morally wrong. While God may have granted artists little wisdom, He apparently did not skimp on hubris.