Christians seek right to sue BBC for blasphemy
Filed Under (Bad News, News, Stupidity) by Ian on 20-11-2007
Tagged Under : bbc, blasphemy, gay news, lawsuit, mary whitehouse, prosecution, theocracy
Err, I think England needs to revise their laws, this is law that you should only see in a Theocracy.
Christians seek right to sue BBC for blasphemy
A Christian group trying to prosecute the producer and broadcaster of Jerry Springer - The Opera under blasphemy laws will take its case to the high court in London today.
Christian Voice wants to bring a case against Mark Thompson, the director general of the BBC, and Jonathan Thoday, producer of the award-winning musical, for blasphemous libel, but was refused permission by City of Westminster magistrates court. The group is hoping to launch what would be only the third prosecution in more than 80 years for an offence which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
The last successful prosecution was brought by Mary Whitehouse in 1977 against Gay News for publishing a poem, The Love that Dares to Speak its Name, about a Roman soldier’s homosexual love for Christ. The human rights group Liberty, which has been allowed to intervene in the high court judicial review, says the law is outdated and argues that free speech rights must protect sacred, profane and secular language alike.
Yeah this is pretty retarded. Things like this not only mean we need to clarify what ‘freedom of speech’ is, but also that we are still pretty afraid of being open minded. That is one of the root problems we have here on earth…
fantastic blog, by the way.
I don’t think we’ve actually got “freedom of speech” in the UK. You can certainly be imprisoned for saying the “wrong” things. Fortunately what people think is “wrong” has changed a lot in the past hundred years, so being offensive to imaginary super-beings is usually quite ok here now. Christian Voice is a pressure group that organises christian cult members into outraged email campaigns, but there are too few of them to have much influence, even on a seriously politically compromised organisation like the BBC.
Now if God himself was to take Thompson to court…
…..then we could end all this speculation once and for all and the non-believers could book a ring side seat in Hades. But that won’t happen, because I have it on very good authority that God thought the opera was fantastic, particularly the orchestration and the choreography, and was quite impressed by the lyrical content too. You see, God likes a joke as much as anyone. That’s why there are Conservatives. What else are they good for except as targets of mockery and derision?
Jerry makes a living off the obscene and relentless points he pursues. Another case of “change the channel” if you don’t like it. How about taking it to the street and concentrating on homeless children and victims of our society instead of Jerry. I’ve heard of radical Christian groups shutting down a video store and runing a family’s life as they ended up splitting up…how you ask? Some lawyer was a close friend of a Christian” and found a loophole of some sort with blackmail. How is that right? There are extremists in every religion and remember my quote…religion is the farthest thing away from God. God is love…he is not condemning. That is my humble opinion. Why would anyone want to believe in God if he was a communist?
But he loves communists too, right? I mean even if he’s not one, yes? And gays, sinners, republicans, democrats, autocrats, Hitler, Pol Pot, the Klan, you, me, everybody? Cos he’s love is he not. So he loves, without judgement, unconditionally. Cos he’s love. Not conditional. He wouldn’t condemn you for being a communist. Right? Or no?