VERA HUGHES,
Madam, - It is indeed a sad and sorry post-Christian Ireland we are living in, when the Broadcasting Act 2001, in being so vigilant about not promoting religion, has banned an advertisement for the Irish Catholic newspaper.
According to the enlightened ones in RTÉ behind the ban, the innocuous ad in question "addressed the merits or otherwise of adhering to a particular religious faith". And that faith, of course, is Catholicism.
Poor God! To even hint at the author of life, or His ministers is now in breach of the Act. But to show a "soap" such as Fair City that promotes serial adultery, with "exes" living with other people's "exes", exchanging partners like alley cats, and now cocaine-snorting juvenile sex, and condoms - the lot for good measure, to titillate the viewers - is supposed to be the norm.
Has it come to a state that we allow this pagan rubbish on our screens without a murmur - yes, I know we can switch off - and at the same time blindly accept the verdict of a Broadcasting Act, that seems to have been framed by liberal trendies blatantly hostile to all religious beliefs? - Yours, etc.,
VERA HUGHES,
Moate,
Co Westmeath.