Let the show begin!
Stephen Green, national director of the fundamentalist organisation Stephen Green’s Voice (aka Christian Voice), announced yesterday that his long-awaited blasphemy prosecution against the BBC has begun.
Two years ago yesterday BBC2 broadcast the comic musical Jerry Springer: The Opera. It contained scenes that many considered “blasphemous”. Now, after two years of campaigning and fund raising, Green has presented information before Horseferry Road Magistrates, hoping to begin a criminal action against Mark Thompson (the BBC’s Director General), and the show’s producer Jonathan Thoday.
If artistic people do not where or how to stop as they push against the boundaries of decency, then the law must step in and tell them,
said Green.
The District Judge Caroline Tubbs will decide later this week whether or not to support the application for a summons.
Oh go on, Caroline. Let this one go to court! We are rubbing our hands in eager expectation.
Green will almost certainly lose, but whatever the result, he is sure to interpret it as a sign from God. As he says in his fund raising letter:
if we fail to convince a jury that ‘Jerry Springer the Opera’ is blasphemous, it will be a sign of His judgment on our land. If they convict, it will be a sign of His mercy.
He doesn’t say what it will be a sign of if the the judge doesn’t deem the case worthy of a hearing. Let’s hope he doesn’t have to figure that one out. This is going to be fun!
The blithering clown still can’t decide whether he is pro censorship or freedom of speech I see…
Old Dogshit was on Radio Two earlier blithering on about how Christians should have the right to refuse service to gay people. They had on a lesbian vicar, who of course disagreed with him. It’s always funny when they have another Christian to disagree with him, because it makes him look like an even bigger fool!
‘… it makes him look like an even bigger fool!’
Impossible! He’s a saturated solution of foolness.
Oh of course. Green and his ilk want the freedom to discriminate against and offend gay people but don’t want anyone to have the freedom to say anything that will offend their beliefs.
I hope his case against Springer will expose him, his nasty organisation and other relegious fundamentalists as the hate filled, bigotted idiots that they are!
And also that it will teach them that the law IS NOT there to force us all to believe what THEY believe!
To paraphrase Blackadder: “As foolish as a really foolish person who has just been appointed professor of foolishness at a really foolish University” (probably one of those Bible Colleges in the USA)
Andy N – possibly one of this little lot then?
http://www.wholesomewords.org/direc.html#bics
Or just anywhere that employs William Dembski?
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I rather hope that Justice Tubbs does throw the case straight out. Even an unsuccessful prosecution can put the fear of god (pun intended) into tv and theatre producers.
Look at Mary Whitehouse’s comically bad failed prosecution against The Romans In Britain, which hung entirely on the word of a retired general (I think) who sat right at the back of the theatre that there was live anal rape on stage, rather than simulated (ass it obviously was).
The show wasn’t seen again on the stage until last year, a gap of over 30 years between runs.
Sounds to me that’s what Green wants, Tom. It’s win-win for him unless the judge throws him and his stupid “do as as I say because I believe in god” fucking attitude out with the trash – where it all belongs.
I’m constantly disappointed that his pro/anti/pro/anti/pro/anti-censorship stance is never pointed out in the mainstream media that he whores himself to.
He was in attendance last night of course and looking very smug with himself and his fellow bigots… They were a very confused bunch and they really needed to sort themselves out… one idiot was chanting “No multiculturalism” which was decidedly funny as he was surrounded by many god botherers of other ethnic groups… so lets hope the smile is wiped off of their faces with this blasphemy case as it was last night… It was clear that they were going to lose because they had Ian “Chemo” Paisley as a speaker… always a sign of desperation….
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