In recent weeks certain bellicose correspondents have stormed onto your letters page, purple in the face and shaking their fists at Garret Gaston for daring to make fun of the Catholic church in his cartoon La Petite Camera [June 21]. Last week’s missive by Raymond E. Drake of something called the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property was especially priceless: “This blatant, filthy mockery of the papacy and the church is a grave insult to God and to all Catholics” read one passage. “We have no other option than to stand up and defend the honor of God and the Catholic faith” said another. At the end of the apoplectic fit we learn the TFP will “launch a nationwide campaign…to protest this blasphemy” if the Reader doesn’t send along an unqualified apology within a week. Hey Ray! What’s with the namby-pamby protest stuff? Fire up the Inquisition!
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Frank Rawland
