Update on UVa Anti-Christian Cartoon Controversy
Last night, Bill O'Reilly apparently covered the story of the University of Virginia student newspaper, The Cavalier Daily, and its decision to run (and not apologize for) a number of cartoons attacking Christian beliefs. Which would explain my increased number of hits from search arguments containing the words "university of virginia cavalier daily virgin mary cartoon".
The most controversial cartoon, at least based on the search arguments that are landing people here, is the one depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary as having an "immaculately transmitted" STD. As Publius commented at my earlier post, leave it to the blasphemous sophomoric idiots at a student-run paper to conflate the Virgin Birth of Our Lord with the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady.
Here is my initial post from Tuesday on the controversy.
And another post from yesterday covering the story.
posted by Pro Ecclesia 8:09 AM
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I recently heard about the controversy up at UVA earlier today because of a staff opinion printed in the Roanoke Times that was picked up by my Google alert for stories with "Radford" and "cartoon" in them.
Down at Radford University, we had a controversy of our own with a cartoon series called "Christ on Campus." Sadly, our world today gives little respect for the Christian faith.
If you want some reads on what happened down at RU, here's a link that should help you out:
http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/wb/xp-54305
This blasphemous attack against Jesus and Mary really upsets me. The bogus tolerance talk only applies to liberals and anti-Catholic opinions, it seems.
I found this site where you can log a protest to UVa - as well as the unchivalrous Cavalier Daily paper.
http://tfp.org/student_action/activities/protests/uva_blasphemy.htm
The link didn't highlight.
Let's try this again...
http://tfp.org/student_action/activities/protests/uva_blasphemy.html
Oh, no, such oppression! Newflash, guys: Team Jesus runs all three branches of government right now. If cartoons in a college newspaper are the most offensive thing you can find, you're probably doing OK.
I think I speak for all infidels when I say please, just shut up. If we're going to hell anyway, at least let us enjoy our time on earth.
hallelujah brother, I agree. What's different between the offense to christians and offense to gays is that christians don't really have a whole lot of oppression coming at them in the first place in this country. The church has held enormous power for an extremely long time, and so the reason for this backlash is more of an inexperience with having ever had any nasty commentary directed strongly at them, whereas gays and other commmonly oppressed groups have to struggle to reverse the common association of terms such as queer and gay with a negative idea.
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