To the editor,
Suppose the Roman Catholic church asked you to run anti-family
planning, anti-abortion, anti-gender-equality advertisements: Would you
do it for a price?
Suppose Charlton Heston rose from the dead with an AK-47 clenched
between his teeth and demanded, on behalf of the American gun lobby,
that Canadians stop being such pussies and get some hand guns and
attack weapons. Would you promote this insanity for top dollars?
And suppose Imperial Tobacco, or its equivalent, wanted to push
products that cause horrible deaths and, incidentally, rape the public
health purse on behalf of the nicotine lobby, would you run full
page advertisements on its behalf?
Oh, I see. You do have your price. Too bad. I thought all of
your moralizing about this and that added up to something worth
defending. —Paul Robinson, Dartmouth
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This article appears in May 7-13, 2009.