Last week the Ottawa Citizen ran a desperate whinge from McDonald, wherein she indicated her surprise that she couldn’t crap on Christians without being in turn criticized herself. I was so pleased to see it, because it tells me that times have changed. I think McDonald’s right: a few decades ago — say, around when her book jacket publicity photo was taken — she probably could have vomited forth her attack on Christians without any pushback. Talk radio was undeveloped, the Internet wasn’t around and you could count conservative columnists in the country on one hand (…) McDonald doesn’t like to be criticized, especially from mere citizen writers.
She wants her 1970s back.
Here’s the letter to the editor that I wrote in reply to McDonald’s op-ed. The Citizen wanted to make too many editorial changes to it for my liking, so I withdrew it, but I’m happy enough to publish it here…
