Canada: OK to Bash Catholicism
Posted on May 17, 2007
We read:
“A CBC pilot program that portrays altar boys as druggies and the Catholic communion host as “munchable snack food, possible poker chips and a repository for drops of LSD” has sparked a complaint accusing the public broadcaster of blasphemy.
“Catholics should not have to pay for shows where their most sacred rituals and images are considered a starting point for dramatic licence,” said the Catholic Civil Rights League, which intends to lodge a formal complaint today with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for airing The Altar Boy Gang.
“With this program, the CBC has moved into the area of blasphemy of sacred rituals.”
The Toronto-based Catholic rights group says the CBC is guilty of a “double standard” by lacking sensitivity about the country’s most dominant religion, while it hired a Muslim Canadian consultant last year to ensure that Islamic practices were respected in the program Little Mosque on the Prairie.
So the super-sensitive Canadians who don’t want to “offend” anybody or make them feel “uncomfortable” must regard Catholics as sub-human — not worthy of the respect that human beings get. Hitlerian thinking lives!
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society has deemed it okay to bash all members of the Christian Community, while bending over backwards to appease the enemy. Heck of a way to run a society.
PBS did about the same when it characterized Joseph Smith as a power crazed ego maniac with an extreme imagination, a womanizing child molester who married multiple wives to satiate his sexual appetite, a gold digger who had a snake oil salesman’s charismatic appeal ( or something close to that ), and, oh yes, I forgot that he dealt in black magic on the side. Other than that they were very kind about the first president of the Mormon Church. Is it any wonder that the major media outlets have a way of turning a bad light on organized religion?
If the jackasses who control the CBC were to ridicule Jews and Muslims - There would be lawsuits - and riots on the street.
These idiots should be fired , and if at all possible -face other penalties
Sincerely -Cassidy -Denver -Colorado
Canada has hate speech laws that they invoke against churches and preachers however, Christians in general are not targeted as victims of hate speech.