http://www.comics.com/creators/bc/archive/bc-20050321.html
Posted on 04/08/2005 6:54:52 PM PDT by buccaneer81
Comic strip treads on religious rights Friday, April 08, 2005
I fervently protest The Dispatch’s policy of running the bigoted writings of Johnny Hart in his strip B.C., an egregious act made all the worse because this anti-American trash appears on the Comics pages, where it can be read by children.
In regard to the March 21 strip, what is so hard to understand is that the separation of church and state is one of our country’s greatest strengths. The fact that our governments and courts do not put one religion above another is perhaps the finest thing about our country. We have only to look at Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and other countries to see the great harm, the loss of freedoms, that come about when one religious point of view is allowed to structure the laws of the land.
What Hart wants, and apparently The Dispatch approves of, is his religion dominating America, setting the standard of belief for all, which implies that those who do not believe as he does should not be afforded equal standing before the government or the court. What Hart conveniently forgets, as apparently does The Dispatch, is that there are at least 2,500 religions in America.
I call on The Dispatch to respect the religious rights, freedoms and dignities of all Americans, whether they choose to follow one of those thousands of religions or not, by immediately ceasing to carry Hart’s hostile arrogance masquerading as a comic strip.
EDWARD M. KRAUSS
Columbus
This guy is all twisted up over B.C.??? Good grief. What was the "offending" cartoon?
B.C. sucks rocks anyway
Mr. Krauss needs to move to France.
Or Canada...or Holland...the list goes on.
I wonder if this guy is really Ted Rall? (sp?)
Mark
http://www.comics.com/creators/bc/archive/bc-20050321.html
Better than "Doonesbury" and "For Better Or For Worse" or (yack) "Family Circus".
" What Hart conveniently forgets, as apparently does The Dispatch, is that there are at least 2,500 religions in America."
OK eddie, name em.
Exactly... BC is one of the most innofensive cartoons ever.
Mr Hart is a decent man, which is probably what's really got this writer's short hairs in a twist. But then, some people really don't have anything better to do than look for things to get upset over.
Mark
Eddie Kraus is, of course, a bigot.
Yah... and that sort of thing would never happen, uh, here... fer 'zample. :-)
It is kinda staggering to think of. Just imagine that guy's day. Of *all* the things he saw and heard on that day, ~this~ is the thing that pushed him so far as to write a letter to the editor.
Wow. I'm only glad that he has now warned everybody to try and not be standing next to him when he finally blows.
Our local paper has carried BC cartoons since before I could read and have always contained religious content. I wonder why Eddie is speaking up now.
We need to let editors know we love BC -
and can somebody please give a one way ticket to BC - about 10,000 BC aught to do it - to this jerk
It's "Johnny Hart" or whoever is writing the strip now, trying to stir up interest in a dying strip.
"It's "Johnny Hart" or whoever is writing the strip now, trying to stir up interest in a dying strip."
The strip has always carried some religious content.
Wonder what this guy would think of "Day by Day"?
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