Ted Byfield, columnist for the Calgary Sun (probably my favorite newspaper in North America), points to a Canadian analogue for the selective sensitivity toward religions demonstrated in Lewiston, Maine. It seems that the taxpayer-owned and supported Canadian Broadcasting Corporation  has produced a pilot program for series to be called The Altar Boy Gang. He writes:In the show, the teen-aged males do what is presumed to be typical altar-boy things -- they do drugs, they use the communion wafers as snack food, and they lace some of them with LSD -- that kind of stuff. All of this goes on under the nose of the hapless Father Sand, standing in as a representative of the Catholic hierarchy. There is a word which describes such behavior: blasphemy. All the more startling when contrasted with this awkward fact about the CBC, cited by ByfieldJust how, they will ask, does the CBC reconcile its jovially cavalier attitude towards the sacred rituals of the Catholic church with the fact...(Read Full Post)