UK Christian Protesters Seek to Prosecute Gay Play

LONDON (Reuters) - A group of Christian protesters in Scotland has called on police to prosecute a theater company for blasphemy because it is putting on a play about a gay Jesus.

``If there is a blasphemy like this, Christians have to stand up,'' said Stephen Green of Christian Voice who protested outside a theater showing Terence McNally's controversial play ``Corpus Christi'' at St Andrews University.

``Jesus Christ is being portrayed here as a foul-mouthed, drunken, promiscuous homosexual and that is an insult to my faith,'' Green told BBC Radio.

But the play's director, Zsuzsi Lyndsay, defended the production: ``He is not portrayed as a drunken foulmouth. He doesn't say one bad word throughout the play.''

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/arts/entertainment-religion-britain-blasphemy.html

I needed a good laugh...very funny!:D arrested for blasphemy? LOL!

But the play's director, Zsuzsi Lyndsay, defended the production: ``He is not portrayed as a drunken foulmouth. He doesn't say one bad word throughout the play.''

BWAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

like damn near everything that is brewed up in the US.

Please forgive me. I like you as individuals but...

and this is just one more reason.

Can you really prosecute someone over there for "blasphemy?"

I'm not sure, but, if so, then there could be countless religious criminal offenses that would be outlandish to thost outside the UK.

Dunno... :shrug:

BBC Q & A on Blasphemy Law

Note that it was a private prosecution, ie the public authorities didn't think it was worth prosecuting. Whitehouse was an interfering good-for-nothing old ratbag (see the lyrics to Pink Floyd's "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" for details), who spent her time complaining about the amount of swearing on the TV and so on.

The play was put on 5 years ago in the UK, and there was no action then:

Britain has adopted criminal legislation against race-based verbal assaults, and is now considering similar legislation against religious "hate" verbage.

Given the degree of perceptible "hate" factor in this case, it clearly falls into line with their laws to demand police restraint, regardless of what the heterosexual, bank-robbing, boot-licking, weiner-grabbing, chicken choking, blood-drinking director of the play says.

The above was an example of "ironicality".

Just like in the Bible, it all makes sense when you take it in context.

Merry Christmas, and H-A-A-A-A-PY New Year!