You may be used to political partisanship from the John W. Pope Civitas Institute, but you would be surprised to go to their website and find a mutilated photo of a baby, right?

Yesterday, visitors to Civitas's newly designed website were treated to an image of a newborn infant making an obscene and sexually suggestive gesture. Civitas has not yet attempted to explain their motives for promoting this disturbing image.

If BlueNC has the story correct, the image is in response to journalists calling in to question the professionalism of Civitas's newest employee, Max Borders. Regardless of the intent of the offensive image, we can hope that both Civitas and their affiliate, the John Locke Foundation, will apologize.