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The paper explained itself by using the ponderous, clich-ridden rhetoric of the diversity movement: 'We are mindful that The Times is a secular publication serving a large and quite diverse and pluralistic community,' the story quoted associate editor Narda Zacchino as saying. There's an interesting contrast of tone here. The Times had decided to print the spiked cartoons on the religion page not because the paper changed its mind, the story said, but because they had become newsworthy. On April 6, the Times ran its own story on the 'B. Instead of living in a world of complicatedand diverse religious sentiments, in the name of diversity the Times helps construct a public square that is monolithically secular. Don't ask, don't tell.Īs usual, the effort to enhance diversity merely creates uniformity. It's fine to pray in your own church, but anybody who brings religious sentiments into the public square is deemed to be proselytizing. Mike Lang, a spokesman for the paper, says the strips are ' insensitive and exclusionary.' According to this understanding of diversity, in order to be sensitive to other faiths, everybody has to shut up about his own. In fact, it's the sensitivity and diversity movement itself that explains the paper's decision not to run the strips. C.' cite it as evidence of anti- Christian bigotry. Religious-conservative groups such as the Christian Coalition that are making hay out of the spiking of 'B. Picture yourself in raiment white, Cleansed by the blood of the lifelong Knight, Never to mourn the Prince who was downed, For He is not lost: It is you who are found. The strongest content came in a Palm Sunday strip which contained a poem called 'The Suffering Prince,' with the words: Anybody who found them overly religious would suffer seizures in a museum of Renaissance art. C.' comic strips around Eastertime because of their religious content? What, then, explains the paper's decision to pull three 'B. Its editor, Shelby Coffey III, created a media frenzy when he championed a new stylebook for the paper that epitomizes political correctness. THE LOS ANGELES TIMES PRIDES ITSELF on being Sensitivity Central in American journalism.

B.c. cartoon land of the free home of the brave johnny hart