Dear Editor
In response to the Mike Stackhouse column that appeared in the Dec. 25 edition of Yorkton This Week in regards my civil rights case about Saskatoon Transit putting Christmas messages on buses, local churches in Saskatoon have now purchased Christmas ads on Saskatoon Transit buses.
I support them being able to do that. I think this is a good alternative to the city promoting Christmas and Christianity on its own. Now that churches are buying their own ads to promote Christmas and Christianity, they shouldn't care if Saskatoon Transit Services promotes Christmas on programmable bus signs.
There are over 10,000 religions, 150 of which have 1 million or more followers, not including branches of each religion. The city can't promote all religions and can't promote all religions equally, so it should promote none. Also, nobody's taxes should go toward promoting a religion that she doesn't believe in. The city shouldn't promote Christmas on programmable bus signs.
If churches want to buy ads promoting Christmas and Christianity, they should be free to do that. If other religious groups or individuals want to buy ads promoting other religions, they should be free to do that. Likewise the Centre for Inquiry Canada should be free to buy ads promoting atheism. That's what freedom of expression is all about.
Ashu Solo
Saskatoon, SK
