Bob Schaffer: “In The Washington Post this morning there is an article on the front here talking about California, how the California…”

“In The Washington Post this morning there is an article on the front here talking about California, how the California Motor Vehicle Division rescinded a license plate because it mentions the Washington Redskins football team. It says that the license was offensive. Somebody apparently complained. In California, taxpayers support the Motor Vehicle Department and therefore a single government-issued license plate depicting a football team is offensive and serious and intolerable; but in New York, obscuring the image of Mary, the mother of God, with animal feces and obscenities, well, that is just art we are told. After all, taxpayers are obligated to subsidize art. Those like me who are offended by a government attack on our religion, we are told to lighten up. Never let it be said, Mr. Speaker, that America lacks for vision, faith and decisiveness and courage when it comes to football and license plates. Mr. Speaker, what have we become? Hail Mary, indeed. O, mother of the word incarnate, despise not my petition but in thy mercy herein answer me. Amen.”