A defeat for the defenders of the One True Orthodoxy

Joel Campbell
Brigham Young University

Dear Dr. Campbell,

I am very sorry to hear that the Provo City Library rejected your advice and reversed their decision to ban the Salt Lake City Weekly from their shelves. I shudder at the thought that innocent children might be exposed to the likes of Ernie Pooks Comeek or This Modern World. Such cartoons encourage seditious thought by prompting readers to question political, cultural, and religious orthodoxy. The authors of these seditious drawings understand that the question is a powerful weapon, one that can topple even the greatest of imposed belief systems.

Worse yet, the comics serve as a gateway to the harder seditious materials found in the Weekly's news and opinion sections. Today's reader of Compound Eye Witness News will surely move on to intellectual pornography like Your Money, Their Curriculum and The Interrogator which question the effectiveness of charter schools and the use of tried and true interrogation methods on the hostages we've taken in the War to Resubjugate Brown People.

I suppose we can take some solace from the library director's decision to move the weekly from the lobby area so that children can't take it into the restrooms with them. Lord knows what kinds of depraved behavior might occur if they sat down on the john and read reviews for the movie, Shark Tale, a recruiting tool for the homosexual lifestyle. Library restrooms are hard enough to keep clean as it is.

I hope you're not discouraged by this. We need you out their fighting to keep alternative viewpoints from competing with accepted ways of thinking.

Heterosexually yours,

Gen. JC Christian, patriot