Waringin has been quoted in his blog as saying he would rather share money earmarked for a conventional promotional campaign with people who needed it.
Refusing the straightjacket of political totalitarianism only to put on the straightjaket of religious conservative totalitarianism merely changes the design of the gag not its effectiveness.
And as Floyd Abrams, an American lawyer and free-speech defender, notes, a book publisher, for example, will still be nervous about an author who has written a “libellous book”.