Bad move. If he’s trying to be a cartoonist he needs to get used to the fact that sometimes people are going to be offended. The cardinal rule is “Never back down” and always stand behind your work. Where would Doonesbury be if Gary Trudeau caved everytime he put up a strip that pissed people off?

“As this comic did not achieve that goal, I have requested that it be taken down from the Cavalier Daily website. I apologize for the offense the comic has produced.”

Why don’t you just say what you really think…”Boneheaded people made me remove my really funny cartoons.” A pity you felt so threatened that you had to pull free speech off the web. I guess TJ no longer believes in democracy in his hoo house.

This proves that the Cavalier Daily isn’t really a newspaper and its editors aren’t really journalists.

You know that if this were an anti-muslim cartoon, they would have never printed it for fear
of “offending” muslims, probably resulting in a violent protest. Yet it’s so easy to make fun
of Christians. And no, TJ would not have viewed this cartoon as appropriate, clever, or
funny.

Apparently, the Christians have monopolised the portrayal of human crucifiction. They would have us believe that it is their intellectual property, not to be used except as directed through their authority. Likewise, the questioning of another Christian article of faith, the “immaculate” (i.e. not dirty, tainted or impure) conception of Jesus is considered offensive by inquisitors such as Bill O’Reilly. O’Reilly must be feeling pretty good about successfully bringing Jefferson’s University student newspaper to its knees.