The Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) recently received an application for a revoltingly offensive personalised licence plate.  The ever-vigilant brain trust at MTO promptly did their civic duty and hurled the application in the trash.  Good on them.

Here’s the rejected licence plate text:

EH.MEN2U

Say what?  Glenn Penner of Voice of the Martyrs Canada explains that it is to be read as “Amen to you”.  His personal friends, Gary and Patti Sullivan of Mississauga, were the applicants.

They wanted to have a plate on their Honda that would be a statement to their Christian faith with a clever Canadian twist (eh??).

. . .

Well, the MTO rejected their application. In a letter to the Sullivans from the MTO's Licence Renewals Unit, supervisor of licensing Sandi Wood said the plate was rejected because the government cannot issue a plate with words or slogans that the public would consider "offensive or inappropriate." The letter stated, "The Ministry's concern, in your particular case, is that the plate would be considered by some members of the public to have a religious connotation," the letter stated. Earlier in the letter, Wood wrote that the Ministry has a difficult task determining what's considered offensive and inappropriate because, many times, it's entirely up to the individual. "However, a decision has to be made one way or the other," she stated. "Therefore, we can only hope for the understanding and cooperation of either the requester or the public at large, depending on the decision made."

Sounds like MTO rejects any plate that someone, somewhere might think religious.  Given what passes for religion these days, it’s a wonder anything gets approved.

In a futile bold attempt to stick a finger in the eye of Ontario’s plate police, I went over to Acme License Maker and whipped these up.

Take that, Ontario Transportation tyrants.