...born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad

No mercy: If you’re a Christian pastor or a stand-up Guy who says something that hurts the feelings of gays and lesbians such that a complaint is lodged with one or more of Canada's Virtue Enforcement bodies, it's a safe bet that you’re going to get chewed out and forced to publicly "repent" for your anti-social utterances. If, however, you’re an aggrieved gay or lesbian and you complain to the body that oversees Canadian broadcasting because during the course of the Ceeb shill-com about an adorable wee mosque one or more of its cuddly characters happens to say much the same thing as the minister and the comic, it's a whole 'nother ball game. As the Ceeb explains re a CRTC decision

The Canadian Radio and Television Commission reviewed a complaint about the Season One episode "Traditional Mother" -- in which the characters Fatima, Baber and Fred voiced disapproval of homosexuality and same-sex marriage -- and decided that the episode did not constitute abusive comment about gays and lesbians.

The CRTC ruled that Little Mosque wasn't promoting anti-gay views but was portraying them as they exist in parts of Canadian society.

Read more about the case at CRTC Finds No 'Abusive Comments' in CBC's Little Mosque on the Prairie at broadcastermagazine.com. Link

Memo to Rev. Stephen Boisson and Guy Earle: time to pack up and move to Mercy, Saskatchewan.

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