If the religious people in America who had protested the telescope on theological grounds had been white Christians...

... this board would be full of post after post of angry denigration and ridicule for the religious folks.

Ah, yes, but ah, these are Hawaiian native folks with native religions vaguely comparable to the belief systems of the Nootka and the Haida.

And so, en masse, the Canadian post writers desist.

We are such a parochial people it makes me want to weep. And it is the worst kind of parochialism - the kind held by people who nonetheless somehow see themselves as worldly and sophisticated...