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Ted Byfield poses that mind-boggling question in connection with the CBC’s latest attempt to dissemble an obvious affront to Christian Canadians.
The CBC has aired two pilot episodes of a television show that appears designed to inflict maximum offence on Roman Catholics. The Altar Boy Gang portrays altar boys as drug users and traffickers who eat communion wafers as snacks and contaminate them with LSD. Sounds like the concept was dreamed up by teenage stoners.
The script also provides an instructive contrast with the hyper-sensitivity CBC displayed toward Muslim beliefs and practices when Little Mosque On The Prairie was in development. Double standard, anyone?
Yet, when challenged, a risible CBC spokesman denies any intent to offend Catholics.
"We certainly intend no disrespect of the Catholic Church, or any other religious organization."
Consider the proposition here.
The CBC depicts a group of adolescents helping to administer what the Catholic Church believes to be "in essence" the body of Jesus Christ.
It presents them as sneering at these sacred things, as using them as poker chips, as infecting them with drugs to poison the faithful people who receive them, and finally as conducting a criminal activity from the sanctuary of the church.
However, spokesperson [Jeff] Keay assures us, by doing all this the CBC "intends no disrespect" towards the church.
You have to wonder, what else could they possibly do if they did intend disrespect?
As Mr Byfield points out, there are two alternative explanations for this drivel: either Mr Keay thinks Canadians are idiots, or Mr Keay himself is an idiot.
Another reason why the incompetent CBC is a national embarrassment. Your tax dollars at work.
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