Another Great NP editorial

The NP points out more leftist hypocrisy.

National Post editorial board: Selective support for fashionable causes
Posted: July 30, 2009, 10:00 AM by NP Editor
Editorial, Full Comment

Diversity. Tolerance. Multiculturalism. Anti-discrimination. These are the supposedly universal values that inform our secular cultural canon. The words sound nice. The problem is that they're not actually "universal." Western societies -- Canada included -- exhibit zero-tolerance attitudes toward the vilification of certain minority groups. But it's no-holds-barred when it comes to bashing less politically fashionable constituencies.

In Glasgow, Scotland, for instance, an artist named Jane Clark -- who is also a pastor at a radical Church-- says her friends felt excluded from the Bible because it does not include positive messages about people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered. So she put an open Bible in the Glasgow museum's In His Own Image exhibit, and encouraged her followers to "write themselves into its pages." Then she claimed to be "saddened" when so many of the defacing entries were predictably profane and highly sexual.

Such a stunt should be legally permitted in a society that honours free speech -- despite the fact most religious Christians frown on homosexuality, and find it distasteful and even blasphemous to deface a Bible in this manner. If anything, Ms. Clark's action should be ignored as the trite exercise in attention-getting it is: From Andres Serrano's Piss Christ to Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary, the desecration of Christian holy objects has become the avant-garde equivalent of dogs playing poker. But it is interesting to imagine what would happen if a gay activist invited all and sundry to pen their various same-sex musings into, say, a Koran. No doubt, riots would now be unfolding all over the Muslim world -- as they did when Danish cartoonists drew pictures of the prophet Mohammed in 2005. More to the point, said activist would be denounced as a bigot and taken up before who knows what European human-rights star chamber.