Co-op bank bars Christian group

Oliver · 01-07-2005, 08:45 PM

I don't really believe CV thought much about it. They were doing their best to stop the BBC rubbing Christian licence payers noses in the stinking offensive entertainment called "Jerry springer the opera" which, sensationalism aside, was so poor that to give it the term "art" is stretching credibility past breaking point. Had this only been on at a theatre then as bad as it was the option was if you didn't like it then don't go. The BBC knew the offensive nature of it and the extent of public outrage and went ahead anyway. CV saw the cast trying to buy good publicity with the £3,000.00 donation.They moved (illadvisedly IMHO) to block it. in that move they promised to protest at the office of Maggies Centres, not the hospices. if they took the dirty money.

I hope and believe that many people have donated to Maggies to compensate them for their losing the tainted stunt money. As for intimidation has anyone seen a CV protest? hardly frightening, well they would not frighten me, also, this is not the USA

BritishPatriot · 01-07-2005, 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom Wilde

If Jerry Springer - the Opera had been illegal under the blasphemy law, then surely CV would have tried to bring a prosecution (Like Mary Whitehouse once did a few decades ago, I believe). The fact that CV didn't try to do so indicates pretty clearly that they could see that Jerry Springer wasn't illegal. Therefore the money the Jerry Springer Opera wished to donate to the cancer charity was legally obtained.

Actually they do intend to prosecute:

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I and Christian Voice intend to bring charges of blasphemy against those most responsible, from the Chairman of Governors of the BBC down to those involved with producing and staging it at the Cambridge Theatre where it was recorded.

http://www.christianvoice.org.uk/springer.html

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Originally Posted by Tom Wilde

By the way, did you get a chance to see Jerry Springer - the Opera? It was ace! However, I do take objection to the fact that CV attempted to curtail my liberty to see it.

If I did get the chance I would not have taken it. From what I have read about it, it seems not only blasphemous but disgusting, morally depraved and pathetic. By the way would you object if someone made a sexually depraved film about charity worker Margaret Hassan getting beheaded in Iraq? Would you argue that a protest against that curtailed peoples liberty?

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01-07-2005, 08:45 PM	#101 (permalink)
Oliver Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: WHITBY North Yorkshire (but my heart is in Woking) Posts: 1,062	I don't really believe CV thought much about it. They were doing their best to stop the BBC rubbing Christian licence payers noses in the stinking offensive entertainment called "Jerry springer the opera" which, sensationalism aside, was so poor that to give it the term "art" is stretching credibility past breaking point. Had this only been on at a theatre then as bad as it was the option was if you didn't like it then don't go. The BBC knew the offensive nature of it and the extent of public outrage and went ahead anyway. CV saw the cast trying to buy good publicity with the £3,000.00 donation.They moved (illadvisedly IMHO) to block it. in that move they promised to protest at the office of Maggies Centres, not the hospices. if they took the dirty money. I hope and believe that many people have donated to Maggies to compensate them for their losing the tainted stunt money. As for intimidation has anyone seen a CV protest? hardly frightening, well they would not frighten me, also, this is not the USA