In an effort to encourage participation in the Census, the National Association of Latino Elected Officials is distributing this poster (mostly in Spanish) to churches nationwide:
Rev. Miguel Rivera, who heads the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders, calls it “blasphemous.” The Washington Post quoted him on his radio show as saying, “The Census would never do the same thing using the name of Muhammed during Ramadan.”
An aside: The Post piece also quotes Marcus Borg, “a historical Jesus scholar at Oregon State University,” who doesn’t see what all the fuss is about, and compares it to “Christmas cards, if they say, ‘Peace on Earth, and don’t say anything specifically Christian.” They may have found the only Jesus scholar in America who doesn’t know where the phrase “Peace on Earth” comes from.
