It was recently reported that Ottawa is the latest Canadian city to refuse to run these bus ads. The Canadian list now includes: Vancouver, Victoria, Halifax, Kelowna, Ottawa, and London. Only Toronto and Calgary are willing to run them, with Toronto currently running them on buses, street cars, and subway interiors. Calgary will be running them on buses in the near future.
The issue of whether or not to run these ads is a controversial one. There's the issue of free speech. Then, is it worth pissing off the majority to satisfy a fringe minority group? Then there's the whole separation of church and state issue that could be brought up. This issue seems fraught with drama, any thoughts?
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What about anti-abortion ads? They're allowed to run, even though there is still a large opposing pro-choice group who don't get to run ads also. The separation of church and state is only there when groups like the Atheists try something, otherwise the church has no problem putting the squeeze on the government...but you all know my thoughts on the church.
This was, plain and simple, an successful (and, as I said before, cowardly) attempt at censorship. I thought I was going to change my prejudice against boring Ottawa when I learned that they were going to get the atheist ads on their buses. I was actually being envious. It seems now that the capital is just as boring and puritan as I always thought it was. I still hope I will be proven wrong.
I hear that. Take that, progressive eastern policies!
Wade, anonymous is calling you out! He will meet you with pistols at dawn. He has shown such bravery in his comments...one can only bow to such chivalry! Thank you, anonymous!
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