Christian Voice launches new bid for blasphemy ruling

20 November 2007

Stephen “Dogshit” Green of Christian Voice is launching a private prosecution in the High Court in an attempt to sue the BBC for blasphemy for it’s screening of Jerry Springer: The Opera.

Green first launched his legal application for special treatment for supposed offence caused in 2005, but it was turned down at the time by City of Westminster magistrates court. Now Green seeks to have this ruling overturned.

The BBC reports:

Michael Gledhill QC, appearing for Mr Green, argued the district judge had made a mistake in refusing to issue the summonses as the show had clearly “crossed the blasphemy threshold”.

He said the show was “an offensive, spiteful, systematic mockery and wilful denigration of Christian belief”, and one that would never have been staged or aired in Britain had it been a satire about Islam, not Christianity.

No theatre would have produced it. Neither would the BBC have broadcast it,” he said.

As I’ve mentioned before, it seems that christians are not averse to riding on the coat-tails of islamists who might actually make good on their threats of violence. It seems that they’re content to equate the consequences of insulting christianity with those of insulting islam, yet they’re not so keen as to actually make any overt threats of violence, and even less keen to carry out those that they do make.

Instead, they make shallow comparisons and appeal to completely backwards and anachronistic laws that have no place in any modern society that values rationality, evidence and reality.

It seems to me that now is as good a time as any to promote the petition to get the UK’s blasphemy laws put onto the dog-pile of history where it belongs.

Full article over at on BBC News.

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3903 Responses2007-11-20+18%3A04%3A27nullifidian to “Christian Voice launches new bid for blasphemy ruling”

Roastfrog.net — Jerry Springer Haunts The BBC on November 20th, 2007 9:30 pm

[...] The net result is that Christian Voice is hoping to launch what would be only the third prosecution in 80-odd years for an offense which, according to one blogger, belongs to a set of “completely backwards and anachronistic laws that have no place in any modern society that values rationality, evidence and reality” (opinion noted, Nullifidian!). [...]
nullifidian » Yahoo!: Springer blasphemy hearing closes on November 22nd, 2007 12:38 am

[...] reported by Reuters in this Yahoo! News article, the hearing for the privately brought blasphemy case against the BBC for its screening of Jerry Springer: The Opera has wound-up, with a ruling expected [...]
nullifidian » BBC: Jerry Spring blasphemy case dismissed, again on December 5th, 2007 9:45 pm

[...] Christian Voice’s civil blasphemy case appeal against the BBC over it’s screening of Jerry Springer:The Opera has, thankfully, been once again dismissed by the UK courts. [...]