Religious controversy, Canadian version

That it's even a story is an over-reaction, JR. Christ, that we're falling down in financial affairs is a problem. That he commits such an egregious sin at a church service doesn't concern most people under 40 in this country.

 

So assassination and excoriation are the bench-mark for news? Anything below those levels is in no way newsworthy?

 

If you want to pander, be my guest. I won't be reading.

 

Ok, then.
I wasn't trying to pander. I was trying to make the point that the incident was newsworthy.

 

I've PM'd Zinc and asked him to join us over here.

While I think a lot of Protestant churches invite any Christian to take part, most people know that Catholics only allow Catholics to receive communion. (And even they are supposed to have gone to confession.)

Often at an occasion -- a wedding or a funeral -- where there will be a lot of non Catholics, the priest will politely point this out prior to communion.

I'm surprised the PM wouldn't know the protocol and/or that no one pointed it out to him.

Clinton did the same thing while President when he was in South Africa (I think it was South Africa). Pretty odd considering he went to a Catholic college. It was a big deal, at least among right wingers, when he did it.

 

If he had farted, would it be a story?

 

That would depend on the circumstances.
If a political leader gets sick and vomits at home = probably not a story.
If a political leader gets sick and vomits during a public function = probably a story.
It may not be as important as other stories in the news cycle, but it's still newsworthy.

 

AMac, you're one of my favourite people, but c'mon, we live in an era where the most mundane things become news and the newsworthy gets blown all out of proportion. You don't have to look any further than the Michael Jackson funeral.

 

So did he actually palm the wafer instead of eating it?

That would be bizarre.

 

harper is a social retard

 

Does it have to be? No. And it's funny how a daily newspaper's editor agrees with me.

 

Doesn't make it right.

Unfortunately, our political figures are always under a too-constant surveillance by people who are going to nitpick every little thing that they do.

AMac is right - I don't give a shit that the prime minister pocketed a wafer at Romeo LeBlanc's funeral. It's not news, it's not in any way worthy of controversy.

There are way more important prime ministerial fuck-ups on which Canadians should be concentrating.