Stephen Green stands with the mullahs
Stephen Green, the director of Stephen Green’s Voice (less accurately known as Christian Voice), has written a confused and self-contradictory letter to The Telegraph in support of retaining the UK’s archaic, discriminatory blasphemy law.
Here are two sentences extracted for you to compare and contrast:
Your correspondents are wrong to say the blasphemy law “purports to protect beliefs”.
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That being said, the existence of the blasphemy law should engender a proper respect for the sacred and so provide an umbrella of protection for the deeply held religious beliefs of others.
This is your brain on fundamentalist Christianity.
His argument, what there is of it, is that the UK is a “Christian country” therefore the blasphemy law should exist in order to respect and protect Christian beliefs. From that can we infer that Green was in agreement with the Sudanese authorities when they prosecuted a teacher for naming a teddy bear Mohammed? They were only trying to engender a bit of respect for the dominant religion of their country, after all.
Hey Green, are you listening? Jesus was a bastard mate – so sue me!
The letter (boastfully repeated on the SGVoice website) is quite the guilty pleasure.
‘Curiously, it is always the person of the Lord Jesus Christ who is the target of blaspheming poets, playwrights and artists.’
Umm, The Satanic Verses?? The Danish cartoons??
‘What the Telegraph’s correspondents call ‘freedom of expression’ the rest of us too often have to describe as obscene, blasphemous, offensive, inhuman, pornographic, degrading or just plain crass.’
Just like many people find Green’s anti-gay ravings inflammatory and twisted. You know, the ones he always reminds us he has every right to spout.
Back to the Question Time tactic of using ‘the rest of us’ meaning himself and a few fundies.
One suspects that Green doesn’t consider those blasphemous.
Respect? In the same letter Stephen Green whips up racist paranoid fears about Muslims trying to turn Britain into an Islamic state. Hardly helping respect for people of other faiths?
CV only wants laws to protect the beliefs of Christians from criticism. They want the freedom to slag off Islam but not Christianity.