OTTAWA, February 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a ruling released Wednesday, the Canadian Broadcasts Standards Council (CBSC) okayed the use of anti-Catholic profanity. The Quebec Panel of the CBSC received a complaint after a comedian on radio used the terms “tabernac’”, “calice” and “hostie” as curses. Translated the words mean ‘tabernacle’, ‘chalice’ and ‘host’. The terms refer to sacred objects in the Catholic Church. In justifying their ruling to say the broadcast did not violate the CBSC ethical standard, the CBSC quoted an earlier ruling regarding blasphemy: “At this point in the 20th century, the CBSC expects that comedians are entitled to question tradition and to tickle formal and possibly outdated values without finding themselves, for that reason alone, exceeding Canadian broadcast standards.” Luc Gagnon, President of Campaigne Quebec Vie (Campaign Life Quebec) told LifeSite said in the Quebec culture the terms are considered greatly offensive to French speaking Catholics. Gagnon described the terms as anti-Catholic blasphemy since it used sacred words in vain to demonstrate anger. See the CBSC ruling online at: http://www.cbsc.ca/english/decision/030212b.htm