While schools and stores and parade organizers (and everybody else who are influenced and suckered by godless, agnostic, atheist or secularist or liberals) stop the singing of joyous Christmas carols and the display of nativity scenes at Christmastime for fear of making a Muslim (or agnostics, atheists or secularists or liberals) uncomfortable, it’s perfectly alright to mock Jesus Christ—despite the protest of thousands of Christians and others. Common sense is applied differently when you’re a liberal. Liberals live by a different set of rules than you and I.
UK Christians Burn TV Licenses Over Springer Opera
LONDON (Reuters) – Christian protesters set fire to their television licenses outside the BBC’s London offices on Friday as outrage spread over the public broadcaster’s plans to air a profanity-laden musical.
In the award-winning London show “Jerry Springer—The Opera,” viewers can watch a diaper fetishist confess all to his true love, catch a tap dance routine by the Ku Klux Klan and see Jesus and the Devil locked in a swearing match.
Michael Reid, a pastor and self-styled bishop who organized the peaceful demonstration ahead of the airing on Saturday evening, called the musical “filth.”
“The use of foul language together with mocking Jesus Christ and portraying him wearing a nappy with sequins is highly offensive to Christians and we felt that it was totally wrong,” he told Reuters.
He said the British Broadcasting Corporation, which is funded by license fees from the public, would not risk upsetting minority faiths in Britain like Islam or Buddhism.
“Because we are Christians they think we are fair game for any insults,” he added after dozens of people burned licenses.
The spat, which has made front page news in the British tabloid press, comes less than a month after hundreds of angry Sikh protesters stormed a theater in Birmingham and forced it to scrap a play depicting sexual abuse in a Sikh temple.
U.S. actor David Soul, who stars in the show, went on air to defend the BBC’s decision, which has prompted over 30,000 complaints from the public even before it has been shown.
“Believe me, this show would never have gotten to where it is today if it was simply about blasphemy and bad language,” Soul told BBC radio.
“I’m a Christian and I certainly don’t see it as blasphemy at all,” said Soul, famous for his role in the “Starsky and Hutch” police series.
The musical, written by British composer Richard Thomas and comedian Stewart Lee, is based on Springer’s brash American talk show whose lurid topics ranged from “Honey I’m a Call Girl” to “Bring on the Bisexuals.”
Suddenly, it doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks. David Soul says “I’m a Christian and I certainly don’t see it as blasphemy at all”.
I missed the memo on the rule change.
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