Christians mounted a protest this morning against an article in the South Wales Echo, which was also published on the paper’s website in association with Cardiff ‘s leading firm of solicitors.

The article, by Dan O’Neill, was published in the South Wales Echo on Wednesday 16th July and then put up on the Echo website where it was published ‘in association with’ Hugh James.

In the article, O’Neill firstly declares that the Bible is not the word of God. It was written by ‘a wild-eyed Bronze Age nomad’, he rages.

Then, in a remarkable display of ignorance of the social mores of the Holy Land in the 1st Century, he remarks that Jesus Christ could be accused of homosexuality because the Apostles were all male.

Not content with that, he says it is ‘suspicious’ that Jesus ‘picks up small boys and girls and puts his hands upon them.’ From there, the piece descends into a bigoted rant against Christianity.

This morning, a group of Christians gave leaflets about the matter to staff going in to the Hugh James offices in St Mary’s Street , Cardiff and met Rachel Rhys-Jones, who is in charge of the firm’s marketing.

From there, they moved to the office of Media Wales where they occupied the reception area, singing hymns and praying out loud before meeting with Simon Farrington, one of the Managing Editors.

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said afterwards:

‘The senior partner at Hugh James, Gareth Williams, bears ultimate responsibility for allowing his firm to be associated with such a disgraceful attack on the Christian Faith by Media Wales.

‘He should pull his firm’s support for the South Wales Echo, apologise to his firm’s Christian staff and clients and cancel any further association with Media Wales.

We made it very clear to Simon Farrington that Media Wales should immediately take down the article from the web and publish an apology in the paper and on the web. He should also sack Dan O’Neill, whose column long since ceased to have any relevance to Wales in the 21st century.

‘Media Wales are moving offices at the moment, with their current premises scheduled for demolition. If Mohammed had been called a homosexual and a paedophile in their paper, they would not have to wait for the demolition teams to arrive. But they think they can attack the Christian faith with impunity. Today we showed that even though we would never resort to violence, Christians can mount a swift and effective witness against evil. We now look forward to a positive and gracious response from Media Wales.’

The BBC have just sent a bailiff to serve a statutory demand on Christian activist Stephen Green in respect of Mark Thompson’s costs of £55,000 in the Jerry Springer the Opera case.

The demand could see Green made bankrupt and homeless.

The High Court ruled last December that Stephen Green could not prosecute Mark Thompson, the Director General of the BBC, and Jonathan Thoday of Avalon over the BBC2 broadcast of Jerry Springer the Opera and its subsequent theatre tour. The Court ordered costs against him.

Mark Thompson and Jonathan Thoday were awarded costs totalling £90,000 against Green, who is the National Director of the prayer and lobby group Christian Voice. The BBC’s solicitors were awarded £55,000 and Olswangs Solicitors, who acted for Thoday, got an order for £35,000.

The costs order is better than it could have been; the BBC originally demanded almost £78,000 after instructing David Pannick QC, probably the most expensive barrister they could find, while Thoday wanted over £58,000.

Last month, Stephen Green wrote to both Mark Thompson and Jonathan Thoday inviting them to waive their costs in the interests of goodwill and justice. The appeal to the better nature of Thompson has fallen on deaf ears.

Thompson screened Jerry Springer the Opera on BBC2 in January 2005, attracting 55,000 protests, and the show itself ran at the Cambridge Theatre in Covent Garden before Avalon sent it on a badly-attended tour in 2006 over which Thoday said he lost £500,000.

Stephen Green, who brought the action over Jerry Springer the Opera in his own name, said today:

‘Jerry Springer the Opera portrayed Jesus Christ as a nappy-wearing sexual deviant, who said he was ‘a little bit gay’. It called Mary a rape victim, said the birth of Jesus was because ‘the condom split’, ridiculed His wounds on the cross and the sacrament of Holy Communion, had God as an ineffectual old man who needed guidance from Jerry Springer and finished up with Springer as a counterfeit saviour of mankind who told Jesus to “Grow up for Christ’s sake and put some f***ing clothes on.”

‘It should be enough for Mark Thompson and Jonathan Thoday that they got away with blasphemy, insulting God and the Lord Jesus Christ, at least in this life. For these rich, powerful men to pursue me into the bankruptcy courts over money I don’t have would be vindictive.’

Both sets of solicitors have also threatened to chase the donors who gave the money for the original action, but it is far from clear that a court would allow that. Even if it did, Green is adamant that he will protect the donors’ identity, even if that puts him in contempt of court.

‘I should go to prison rather than reveal their names, even if I could remember who they were,’ he told both Thompson and Thoday.

The BBC is currently wasting £18million a year on a Gaelic TV channel, £150million on BBC3 and BBC4, its well-heeled bosses spent millions changing their logo and they have just splashed out £550,000 on a completely unnecessary rebrand of the News. They have been in the public eye recently over the obscene sums of money they are paying presenters, with Jonathan Ross getting £18million for a three year contract. The BBC accounts show Mark Thompson was paid over £800,000 last year, an amount per year almost 25 times as much as Green is worth.

Stephen Green continued: ‘Mark Thompson could easily pay his own costs out of his inflated salary, and the BBC certainly would never notice the odd £55,000 alongside the money they squander on a daily basis.

‘I do not have the money anyway, and will end up bankrupt and homeless if Thompson continues with to try to enforce these punitive costs.’

A Christian activist who tried to charge the BBC’s Director General and the producer of Jerry Springer the Opera with blasphemy is facing bankruptcy over a ‘grotesque’ costs order.

The High Court ruled last December that Stephen Green could not prosecute Mark Thompson, the Director General of the BBC, and Jonathan Thoday of Avalon over the BBC2 broadcast of Jerry Springer the Opera and its subsequent theatre tour. The Court ordered costs against him.

In a hearing a fortnight ago, Mark Thompson and Jonathan Thoday were awarded costs totalling £90,000 against Green, who is the National Director of the prayer and lobby group Christian Voice. The BBC’s solicitors were awarded £55,000 and Olswangs Solicitors, who acted for Thoday, got an order for £35,000.

The costs order is better than it could have been; the BBC originally demanded almost £78,000 after instructing David Pannick QC, probably the most expensive barrister they could find, while Thoday wanted over £58,000.

The money is due to be paid today, but Stephen Green doesn’t have it.

He has written to both Mark Thompson and Jonathan Thoday inviting them to waive their costs in the interests of goodwill and justice.

Thompson screened Jerry Springer the Opera on BBC2 in January 2005, attracting 55,000 protests, and the show itself ran at the Cambridge Theatre in Covent Garden before Avalon sent it on a badly-attended tour in 2006 over which Thoday said he lost £500,000.

Stephen Green, who brought the action over Jerry Springer the Opera in his own name, said today:

‘Jerry Springer the Opera portrayed Jesus Christ as a nappy-wearing sexual deviant, who said he was ‘a little bit gay’. It called Mary a rape victim, said the birth of Jesus was because ‘the condom split’, ridiculed His wounds on the cross and the sacrament of Holy Communion, had God as an ineffectual old man who needed guidance from Jerry Springer and finished up with Springer as a counterfeit saviour of mankind who told Jesus to “Grow up for Christ’s sake and put some f***ing clothes on.”

‘It should be enough for Mark Thompson and Jonathan Thoday that they got away with blasphemy, insulting God and the Lord Jesus Christ, at least in this life. For these rich, powerful men to pursue me into the bankruptcy courts over money I don’t have would be vindictive.’

Both sets of solicitors have also threatened to chase the donors who gave the money for the original action, but it is far from clear that a court would allow that. Even if it did, Green is adamant that he will protect the donors’ identity, even if that puts him in contempt of court.

‘I should go to prison rather than reveal their names, even if I could remember who they were,’ he told both Thompson and Thoday.

The BBC is currently wasting £18million a year on a Gaelic TV channel, £150million on BBC3 and BBC4, its well-heeled bosses spent millions changing their logo and they have just splashed out £550,000 on a completely unnecessary rebrand of the News. They have been in the public eye recently over the obscene sums of money they are paying presenters, with Jonathan Ross getting £18million for a three year contract. Mark Thompson’s own salary was £609,000 in 2005/6 and must be around £750,000 now. Added to that, the solicitors in the BBC’s legal department are on the payroll anyway; the BBC is not even out of pocket in that regard.

Avalon represents entertainers such as Frank Skinner, David Badiel, Harry Hill and Al Murray. Its TV production arm has supplied shows involving most of its own entertainers to TV channels.

Stephen Green continued: ‘Mark Thompson earns well over twenty times as much in a year as I am worth. He could pay his own costs out of his inflated salary, and the BBC certainly would never notice the odd £55,000 alongside the money they squander on a daily basis.

‘Jonathan Thoday can easily afford to waive his costs as well. He lost £500,000 over the failed tour of Jerry Springer the Opera in 2006, and didn’t bat an eyelid, so he isn’t exactly short of money either. Seven years ago, in 2001, he featured in the Independent’s Media Rich List, with a personal fortune estimated then at £12million.

‘Quite simply, I do not have the money anyway, and will be certainly end up bankrupt if Thompson and Thoday decide to enforce these punitive costs.’

Human Rights barrister Paul Diamond said the case raises issues under the European Convention of Human Rights about access to the courts.

Stephen Green concluded: ‘How are people with limited means expected to bring actions of public importance against public bodies or wealthy people? It is outrageous that a public-spirited individual should be dissuaded from upholding standards of public decency in a public body because of the fear of adverse, grotesque costs orders.’

NOTE for editors: The European Court have previously held that in certain circumstances legal aid must be granted to individuals to enable them to pursue their case. In the same way an impecunious claimant should not be subject to an adverse costs order which would deter other individuals from access to the courts where it as reasonable to have legal representation and the other party is a public body.

The abolition of the blasphemy laws received Royal Assent on 8th May, and to celebrate, the atheists of the National Secular Society plan to do something they could safely have done even while the laws were still in existence.

They are going to hold a secret private party ‘at a central London venue’ at lunchtime on Saturday 21st June at which they can all blaspheme to each other.

The event, for which all tickets have already been sold, is to be called the ‘Bye Bye Blasphemy Party’. The NSS say it will feature ‘a gorgeous buffet lunch’ and ‘entertainment’.

http://truckdriver.blog-city.com/wwwsecularismorguk_39.htm

Their centre-piece, the bravest and most defiant thing they can think of doing, is to have Sir Ian McKellen reading the ‘Gay News poem’, The love that dares to speak its name.

The secluded Jesus-haters will thrill to the sound of the ‘gay’ actor intoning a pornographic homosexual fantasy of what a Roman soldier wanted to do with the crucified body of Christ.

http://truckdriver.blog-city.com/wwwsecularismorguk_45.htm

Terry Sanderson and Keith Pompous Wood, the homosexual partners-in-perversion who run the National Secular Society, also plan ‘special guests’ and ‘loads of surprises’.

One surprise they won’t want their ‘special guests’ to have is to be confronted by a Christian witness and evangelists outside the venue. So they aren’t saying where it is.

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said today:

‘The funny thing is, the mad and the bad could easily have shut themselves up in a room somewhere and read James Kirkup’s dirge to their hearts’ content at any time during the last thirty years. No-one would have known, and no-one will know this time, even when they proudly claim afterwards to have done it.

‘The blasphemy laws have been abolished, but there could never have been a prosecution for blasphemy over this hole-in-corner event while the laws were still in existence anyway. Where would a prosecutor find the evidence? Even if McKellen were to excite his audience with his stunt of tearing anti-gay pages out of a Bible as an encore, no-one would ever know.

‘If they announced the venue and made the occasion open to the public, that would be different. But they daren’t do that.

‘It just goes to show that despite abolition of the blasphemy laws, no-one with any sense is going to insult Jesus Christ publicly in the United Kingdom . No theatre will risk putting on a blasphemous show after what happened to ‘Jerry Springer the Opera’, broadcasters aren’t going to risk a deluge of mail descending on their directors or governors, and supermarkets won’t stock blasphemous DVDs. In the arts, Anita Zabludowicz will never show her blasphemous statue of Jesus Christ in public again, because she knows what will happen to it.

‘And if the fanatics of the NSS don’t dare to blaspheme in the open, it is hard to see who will.

‘So it really is “Bye bye blasphemy”, and not at all in the way they meant.’

ENDS

God honoured Christian Voice campaign:
Author says he wouldn’t do another Jerry Springer the Opera

Following a House of Commons vote last night, the blasphemy laws will be abolished as soon as the Government’s Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill receives Royal Assent.  Paradoxically, with Christians determined to make even more dramatic witness now it has gone, writers and producers are highly unlikely to risk staging anything insulting Almighty God or Jesus Christ in future, at least if they have the sense to listen to Stewart Lee.

Lee has blamed Christian Voice for the death of his brainchild musical Jerry Springer the Opera and now says he wouldn’t work on anything controversial on a similar scale again.

The comedians’ website ‘Chortle’ said that the musical, which they say Lee spent years developing, ‘suffered financially’ when Christian Voice orchestrated a highly successful campaign against it during 2005 and 2006.

And even though the High Court and the House of Lords ruled against a bid by Christian Voice National Director Stephen Green to bring a private blasphemy prosecution Lee said the furore would stop people investing time in controversial shows.

‘There would be no point writing anything with any religious content which would require big box office receipts or public funding to float it, as a fuss like this could wipe it out instantly,’ he told the obsessive free-speech group ‘Index On Censorship’.  ‘Idiots’, said Lee, ‘could too easily close it down’. (Chortle: 10/12/2007)

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2007/12/10/6141

TOUR WAS A FINANCIAL DISASTER
Even the partisan Polly Toynbee, an ‘honorary associate’ of the rabidly anti-Christian National Secular Society, agreed with Lee in an article in the Guardian on 27th June 2006:

‘The tour was a financial disaster after fundamentalist Christians attacked the tour,’ she wailed. ‘Far from all publicity being good publicity, it put off the usual audience for musicals, who assumed this show must be all filth, shock and schlock. Fear of running the gauntlet of rabid zealots also kept many away. Many theatres pulled out and ticket sales were low. No wonder evangelicals gloat on their websites that they have won and that the production is “under a curse” financially. Censorship has many weapons.’

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/jun/27/arts.theatre

Lee, says Chortle, ‘first starting working on the show with composer Richard Thomas in 2001 at the Battersea Arts Centre. Versions were staged at the 2002 Edinburgh Fringe and at the National Theatre in 2003 before transferring to the West End .’

The blasphemous second act, in which the Lord Jesus Christ is portrayed as a sexual deviant, or, to be specific, as an infantile coprophiliac who is ‘a little bit gay’, was added during the development process.

CHRISTIAN VOICE WROTE TO REGIONAL THEATRES
When the BBC drew the attention of Christians to the final version of the show by screening it on BBC2 in January 2005, Christian Voice wrote to hundreds of regional theatres just as Jerry Springer the Opera was being scheduled to tour.

Lee said: ‘At the time, the Incitement to Racial and Religious Hatred Bill was hanging around in its unmodified form, and Christian Voice were able to exploit the woolly wording to give theatres the impression they could be prosecuted for staging JSTO, so we lost loads of venues and the tour went ahead but was not financially viable.’

The letter from Christian Voice warned of prosecutions for blasphemy and protests and drew attention to the poor attendance for the show in its dying days at the Cambridge Theatre in London ‘s Covent Garden in February 2005. More than a dozen venues, including the Derby Playhouse and the Guildhall, Portsmouth , pulled out.

Toynbee complains: ‘After more than a third of the theatres pulled out in panic, only 23 weeks of bookings remained – too few to have any chance of recouping costs. The authors waived their royalties and the producers decided to take the loss; the Arts Council tipped in a little so people in the regions could see something they regarded as excellent.’

ARTS COUNCIL PULLED FUNDING
In fact, the Arts Council pulled their main funding for the show after the initial furore, and rightly or wrongly, as the Arts Council will never admit to bowing to pressure, Christian Voice got the blame. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4261796.stm

Their subsequent funding was on a much small scale, to only three theatres.  http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/pressnews/press_detail.php?rid=10&id=587

But the public simply didn’t agree that Jerry Springer the Opera was ‘excellent’ or even worth seeing at all, after a Christian Voice campaign in which audiences at theatres staging the show were lobbied for weeks in advance of JSTO turning up and then on the night.  Tens of thousands of evangelistic leaflets informing theatre-goers of the content of the show were given out.  As a result, only Newcastle ‘s Theatre Royal managed to cover a third of its seats during the run.  Many struggled to get a quarter full.  Toynbee moans: ‘Most local reviews were raves, but too late for ticket sales.’

In the end, the producers Avalon admitted they lost between £300,000 and £half-a-million, although Avalon’s boss Jonathan Thoday, with a personal fortune given as £12m in the Indy’s media richlist even in 2001, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/the-media-rich-list-751541.html could easily afford that, Stewart Lee and Richard Thomas, the show’s creators, waived their royalties, David Soul was replaced by Rolf Saxon in the title role, the cast-list was cut by a third and every single theatre made a thumping loss of tens of thousands of pounds of council-tax-payers’ money.

CLOSED DOWN BY ‘IDIOTS’
Lee says, ‘I’d never become involved to such a degree on something on such a big scale if there was the possibility of it being effectively closed down like this.

‘I can’t afford not to be paid for years and years of work on the whim of idiots. That said, no one ever saw this coming. What people take offence at, or choose to be offended by, will always be unpredictable.’

However, as Jerry Springer the Opera was stuffed to the gills with (as the late blasphemy law put it) contemptuous, scurrilous, reviling, abusive and ludicrous representations of God, Jesus Christ, the Bible and the sacraments of the Church, Lee has to have been myopic or ignorant not to have foreseen that there would be an outcry if his show ever poked its nose outside the normal haunts of the artistic elite.

THERE IS SUCH A THING AS BAD PUBLICITY AFTER ALL
As it was, the outcry was enormous, with 55,000 protests to the BBC and then protests at every single theatre on the doomed tour.  Even before the show opened, Christian Voice had been blamed for poor ticket sales in an article in the Guardian (27/01/2006).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/jan/27/arts.artsnews

At the same time, the news agency Reuters observed ‘There is such a thing as bad publicity after all’ and quoted Jonathan Thoday as saying: ‘Christian Voice are winning the audience battle’.

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Uk/uk.religion.christian/msg02776.html

The Royal Family even became involved in the controversy.  Prince Edward is patron of His Majesty’s Theatre in Aberdeen , which was one of the theatres involved, so when he attended a public church service, all those attending were given a leaflet calling on him to resign.  The Prince was forced to claim he was only patron of the theatre’s rebuilding fund.  As the tour limped around Britain , theatre managers struggled to put a brave face on a growing disaster.  The Fairfield Halls in Croydon cancelled three out of eight performances of Jerry Springer the Opera as its Chief Executive Derek Barr, after failing to get his theatre out of its contract with Avalon, admitted: “Maybe we should have avoided it.’

http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.813470.0.php

A THOUSAND CHRISTIAN PROTESTERS ON THE FIRST NIGHT
According to Polly Toynbee: ‘Stewart Lee says a thousand Christian protesters turn up on the first night in big cities. In Leicester some of the cast were turned out of their B&Bs. The Archbishop of Wales tried to get the show stopped at the Wales Millennium Centre. The Scottish cancer charity Maggie’s Centres dared not accept the money from a gala performance when Christian Voice told it doing so would “upset Christians all over the world”.’

Toynbee urged theatre-goers to take the ‘last chance’ to ‘beat the bigots’ by going to see the show at its closing venue, the Brighton Dome, of which she is a patron. Not many took her up on it. She wrote in her June 2006 article: ‘Jerry Springer the Opera reaches the end of its noisy tour next week with a grand finale at the Brighton Dome. It will have made a hefty loss for its producers, who toured it despite knowing that trouble would dog it and that it would lose money. But they were determined not to let the evangelicals win.’

THE EVANGELICALS DID WIN!
Of course, as a comment on her article said: ‘But since producers primarily put shows on to make money, and they lost money, the evangelicals DID win.’

Or, more properly, Almighty God won – and made fools of His enemies.

In an interview in November 2006, Stewart Lee said that the protests ‘soured’ his nomination for an Olivier Award. ‘On a basic level, it meant we never really broke even, or saw much money for it, as it was effectively closed down. Secondly, it has made me think there’s no point trying to do anything any good on a mass-level, as ****s will sabotage it. Also, though I am proud of my contribution, I am now sick to death of talking about the thing, which is ruined for ever for me.’

The quaintly-named magazine and website ‘The Freethinker’ (where you are free to think anything you like as long as it’s atheist) agrees that projects insulting Jesus Christ are now not likely to see the light of day because of ‘self-censorship’.  While it would be better if self-control and common courtesy were the reasons, it is good that the worlds of atheism and the arts are taking notice.

http://www.freethinker.co.uk/2007/12/15/how-religion-stifles-art-lesson-901/

DON’T INSULT JESUS CHRIST IN THE UK
In Christian Voice, we take no credit for the Springer disaster. Our prayer led us to do a few basic things, and while doing them, we learnt how to combine witness with evangelism to great effect.  All those who said that by giving it publicity we would inadvertently make Jerry Springer the Opera an even bigger success were proved precisely wrong.  Almighty God honoured us for standing up for Him and He confounded His enemies.

But Stewart Lee’s message to his fellow atheists in the world of the arts is clear: Whatever happens in other countries is up to them; just don’t even think about staging anything insulting Jesus Christ in the United Kingdom.

In an perceptive Telegraph article headed: ‘In a land without morals, it’s no wonder children kill each other‘, author Jeff Randall quoted the Chief Rabbi.  Here is what he said:

‘ Britain ‘s Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, sums up the anxieties of many: “We are living through the death of civility … Today, it is commonplace to encounter road rage, muggings, street crime, drunkenness, lager louts, hoodies, yobbishness and laddishness. Teachers are attacked in the classroom. Nurses encounter violence from patients.”‘

Yes, indeed, the death of civility.  Now could this be the same Chief Rabbi who has repeatedly failed to condemn the blasphemous, pornographic, thoroughly uncivil statue of Jesus Christ with a phallus stuck on the front, owned by his well-healed friends Poju and Anita Zabludowicz?  The statue which they stubbornly kept on public display at the Baltic Centre in Gateshead earlier this year knowing full well it was offending good taste and decency and the civilised values of ordinary people including Christians, among them Christian friends of Israel and the Jewish people?  The statue they still refuse to destroy, making their friend the Chief Rabbi look like a total hypocrite when he calls piously for people to respect what others hold sacred?  www.chiefrabbi.org/articles/tftd/03feb06.htm

Yes sadly it is the same Chief Rabbi, and the same statue.  And the Chief Rabbi just cannot stop pontificating about the importance of civilised values, despite failing to display them in his own ministry and his chums trampling them in the mud.  ‘Can I respect your faith?’ he asked in Thought for the Day.  www.chiefrabbi.org/articles/tftd/03feb06.htm

No, Sir Jonathan, you can’t.  We are living through the death of civility.  And what a shame it is that you and your friends are helping to kill it.

The Observer has reported that film censors have invited the maker of a film showing Christ being caressed on the cross to resubmit an application in the wake of the House of Lords vote to abolish the blasphemy laws.

The British Board of Film Classification refused a licence for Visions of Ecstasy, which showed St Teresa of Avila caressing the body of Jesus in 1989 on the grounds that it was blasphemous.

Nigel Wingrove, the film’s director, appealed against the UK to the European Court of Human Rights but was ruled against. The UK , said the Court, had every right to have a blasphemy law.

Now, Craig Lapper, Chief Assistance (policy) of the board’s examining body, has invited Wingrove to resubmit the film for classification.  It makes one wonder whether the role of the BBFC is to adjudicate on what is sent to it, or to go scurrying around for rotting morsels in the dustbins of sleaze.

Wingrove himself is now a distributor of horror movies, and admitted that the invitation to resubmit his 19-minute pornographic shoot had come ‘completely out of the blue’. He said he was ‘in two minds’ about whether to agree. ‘People say I should put it out, but on a personal level I have reservations. If I did release it, I would need to put it into context and perhaps release a documentary to accompany it.’

Wingrove believes the board is now largely ‘irrelevant’ because the internet has circumvented its ability to censor, but the Observer claims that ‘secular groups’ will be using him as a pawn, encouraging him to seek a release licence as a way of signalling the death knell of the blasphemy law.

Terry Sanderson, the homosexual president of the National Secular Society, who lives in Ealing with its creepy Executive Director, Keith Pompous Wood, said the blasphemy law ‘put into the hands of bigots a weapon to punish those who want to criticise or satirise religion. We hope that the BBFC will now give a certificate to Visions of Ecstasy as a signal to film makers that they need no longer censor themselves when exploring religious themes.’

Nevertheless, Visions of Ecstasy was never about criticism or satire of religion. Wingrove himself said: ‘I was exploring areas of dark eroticism’. It was a porn film blaspheming Christ as a selling point.

Mr Wingrove’s production companies have names like Purgatory Films, Gothica Films, Salvation Films and Redemption Films. Themes of sex and violence predominate in what are brazenly described as ‘exploitation cinema’. Do not make the mistake of visiting his website where films with titles like Satanic Sluts, Slashers and Killer’s Moon are offered. The latter, which dates from 1978, is described on the website as ‘a truly nasty little film’ with ‘no moral restraint’. The BBFC gave it an X-certificate. This is truly another world which should not exist in a civilised nation.

PRAY: That Nigel Wingrove will not resubmit Visions of Ecstasy.  Pray for him, that his troubled soul will find rest in the Lord Jesus Christ.  He needs to know where salvation and redemption are really found.

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The Government forced abolition of the blasphemy laws through the House of Lords last night (5th March 2008) by whipping the Labour vote. Lord Clarke of Hampstead, Lord Davies of Coity and Lord Kirkhill all rebelled against their party’s whip but it was not enough as the vote went through by 148 votes to 87.

There were tremendous speeches by Baroness O’Cathain, Lord Armstrong of Ilminster, Lord Davies of Coity, Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, Lord Kingsland QC, Lord Neill of Bladen, Baroness Park of Monmouth and Lord Selsdon in favour of keeping the blasphemy laws. Lord Elton was in blistering form as well, and the Bishop of Chester also spoke up for righteousness. He was joined by the Bishops of Rochester and Southwell in the ‘No’ lobby.

Sad to say, the Bishops of Durham and Portsmouth both spoke and voted to allow evil men to insult and vilify their Lord. The Archbishop of York made a Guardian editorial of a speech and then abstained from the vote in a depressing night for the Christian majority in Britain and for Anglicans in particular.

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said this morning:

‘This is a sad day for the United Kingdom. Parliament has set the honour of Almighty God at nought just to please a few hard-line secularists. There is no doubt that those against abolition won the debate, but the ‘Noes’ lost the vote in the face of the shameful Labour whip.

‘The Earl of Onslow scoffed at the capacity of the Lord Jesus Christ to bring judgment against those responsible for blasphemy, but it is the judgment of God against this United Kingdom as a whole which troubles me. I do not know in what form it will fall, whether in some dramatic way, or whether simply in an increasing culture of crassness, disrespect and inhumanity. But fall it will, and we shall have only ourselves to blame.

‘By the grace of God, Christians will continue to protest against blasphemy, as we did so successfully over the tour of Jerry Springer the Opera. Through the relentless witness and evangelism which I helped to organise, the Lord reduced the tour to a financial disaster, and its director, Stewart Lee, has said it will never be shown in this country again.

‘That leaves us with Anita Zabludowicz’s lewd and blasphemous statue to which, interestingly enough, the Bishop of Durham referred in the debate – and in less than flattering terms. The blasphemy laws would have provided the most appropriate way of dealing with this case, which is an insult against the Lord Jesus Christ. It may be there is another way in which the law can call those responsible for this outrage to account, but it will not be nearly as effective or send as strong a signal about the central place of Christianity in our constitution.

‘I believe that one way or another, and by God’s grace, there isn’t going to be blasphemy in this United Kingdom. It is a pity that it will probably have to be stopped in many cases without recourse to the law, but obviously the Lord is calling Christians to stand up for His holiness in other ways in these God-defying days.’

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A leading Bishop has dismissed the myth that the blasphemy law ‘only applies to the Church of England’.  He called for all churches to have a say.

Speaking in the House of Lords Second Reading Debate (22nd January) of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill, the Bishop of Manchester said all Christian churches should take part in the current discussions.

The Bishop, the Rt Rev Nigel McCulloch, said:

‘I would like to correct a common misapprehension about the law of blasphemy. It is often said that it protects only the tenets of the Church of England, but that statement is based on a faulty reading of case law. The judgment of the Administrative Court in the Jerry Springer case on 5 December 2007 usefully confirmed that the factual basis of the offence includes, contemptuous, reviling, scurrilous and/or ludicrous material relating to God, Christ [or] the Bible’.

‘The law therefore protects the basic tenets and scripture of the Christian religion. I mention that because it means that a response to the proposal for abolition is not a matter for the Church of England alone but for Christian denominations and groups more generally.’

The Government have announced their intention to consult the Church of England about abolition of the blasphemy laws after Dr Evan Harris MP (Liberal Democrat, Honorary  Associate of the National Secular Society, militant atheist) put down an amendment to abolish the offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel in a debate in the House of Commons on Thursday 10th January.

Fearful of losing in a vote, Maria Eagle MP, the Minister, promised the Government would bring in their own amendment after ‘consulting’ the Church of England.  Most observers agreed the Church of England would thereby be ‘bounced’ into supporting such a move.  However, Dr McCulloch’s intervention shows the Church of England realises that the blasphemy laws are there to protect the holiness of the Lord Jesus Christ and might not be ‘bounced’ so easily.

PRAY: That God will even now be working to frustrate the blasphemers’ plans.  Pray that He will have mercy on our land and safeguard our national respect for His great name.

PRAY: That wherever groups of ministers and laity meet whether in local synods, PCC’s or fraternals, that a motion will be passed supporting the laws against blasphemy and that such a vote will be communicated to local bishops, MP’s, peers and the local press.  If you take part in one of those meetings, please seize the moment.

READ: Exod 20:7; Judges 5:2,9; Esther 4:14; Psalm 35:1, 56:3, 144:1, 145:13; 149:6; Matt 10:32-33, 16:27; Luke 10:16; 2Cor 10:3-5, Rev 17:14.

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ITS ALL ABOUT INSULTING JESUS

It is being commonly said that abolition of the blasphemy laws will merely allow ‘debate, criticism or even ridicule’ of the Christian Faith which is currently prevented.

That is not the case.  ‘The God Delusion‘, with its debate, criticism and even ridicule of the Christian Faith, has been published with impunity.   Atheist magazines circulate freely, complete with debate, criticism and even ridicule of the Christian Faith.

Others argue that the blasphemy laws can go because there is protection for ‘the established church’ under the religious hatred law.

But the prime purpose of the laws against blasphemy and blasphemous libel is not to protect the sacrament of baptism or the evensong service, despite the reference in the definition of blasphemy to ‘the formularies of the Church of England’.

The truth, the elephant in the room, so to speak, is that the target of blasphemers is nearly always the Lord Jesus Christ, and the blasphemy laws have only been invoked recently in prosecutions for the most extreme and gratuitous insults against His person.

JESUS IS THE BLASPHEMER’S TARGET

This was true in the case of the ‘Gay News’ poem, a homosexual fantasy of what a Roman soldier wanted to do with the crucified body of Christ.  The prosecution brought by Mary Whitehouse in 1977 was successful and was upheld in the European Court of Human Rights.

Wingrove’s ‘Visions of Ecstasy’ contained a sequence of a nun having sexual relations with the body of Jesus Christ.  The banning of the film by the BBFC in 1989 for its blasphemous content was likewise upheld in the European Court of Human Rights as recently as 1996.

‘Jerry Springer the Opera’ centred on humiliating Jesus Christ by casting His character as a sexual deviant, an infantile coprophiliac, to be precise.  There was much more that was blasphemous in it, but that was the centre-piece.

SPRINGER CASE NOW IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, petitioned the House of Lords on 3rd January to appeal against the decision of the High Court last month not to allow a prosecution to proceed in respect of Jerry Springer the Opera.  Serious matters of public importance need to be decided.  So it is untrue, as has been said, that this case has been lost.  It is not over yet and it would be premature for Parliament to pull the rug from under the case while it is still going on.

Indeed, this case might provide a reason for the current rush to abolish the blasphemy laws.  It occurs to me that Evan Harris MP (an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society) and his friends are concerned we are going to win in the House of Lords and bring a successful prosecution for blasphemy in respect of Jerry Springer the Opera.  They argue that a prosecution hasn’t been brought for thirty years, but now that a case is about to be decided upon in the courts, they are afraid they might lose.

BALTIC CENTRE STATUE IS LATEST EXAMPLE

In Gateshead on Saturday there was a well-attended protest against the latest example of blasphemy, a disgraceful statue of Jesus Christ with a phallus attached being exhibited in the Baltic Centre.  During the protest, Christians went in to the centre to gather evidence to prosecute those involved.  Police attended, but all went off peacefully.  An evangelistic leaflet was given out.

However, there was much anger amongst those present outside the centre, and it could fairly be said that it is only the laws against blasphemy, and the knowledge that someone can be brought to book under them, which prevented a serious breach of the peace inside the Baltic Centre.

But once again, the Baltic Centre statue is not about ‘debate, criticism or even ridicule’ of the Christian Faith.  It is about disrespecting and insulting the Lord Jesus Christ.

So anyone in favour of abolishing the laws against blasphemy must explain why he wishes to see the person of Jesus Christ vilified and humiliated, and just how that helps build the ‘culture of respect’ in our society which the Chief Rabbi called for in a recent lecture.

RESPECT FOR OTHERS BEGINS WITH RESPECT FOR GOD

As the Lord Jesus Christ said in His parable of the unjust judge, respect for others begins with respect for God.  It would be reasonable to take the view that to stem a growing culture of disrespect, the blasphemy laws are more important in 2008 than at any previous time.

Lastly, some well-meaning people who are going along with abolition of the blasphemy laws, Christians among them, seem to be regarding this matter in isolation, or at best in conjunction with the religious hatred laws.

The hard-line secularists actually pressing the amendments, however, while denying there is an agenda, have shown that abolition of these laws is not an isolated issue. The ‘666’ EDM to disestablish the Church of England and the website of the National Secular Society reveal that abolition of the offence of blasphemy is just one step towards an atheist Britain, in which Christianity, which they despise, is washed from the public square.

IT IS TIME FOR THEE, LORD, TO WORK

Again, the Lord Jesus said, ‘The children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.’  Good-hearted people of faith supporting the abolition of the blasphemy laws will in this view be like turkeys voting for Christmas.

The last time this matter was debated in the House of Lords, just over two years ago, there was a healthy majority for retaining the blasphemy laws.  But then the Government were in favour of keeping the law.  Now they are not.  So, right now, everything seems against us, but just at this very moment, the Lord is working, and apparent co-incidences are building up.  ‘It is time for thee, Lord, to work’ (Psalm 119:126).

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The leader of a Christian prayer and lobby group has written to the Daily Telegraph in answer to a letter by more than a dozen campaigning secularists and two retired bishops, published today, calling for abolition of the blasphemy law.

TEXT OF PUBLISHED LETTER AND SIGNATORIES

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, is seeking to bring a private prosecution for blasphemy in the case of Jerry Springer the Opera against the Director General of the BBC and the show’s producer. Unsurprisingly, the author and director of Jerry Springer the Opera was among the signatories of the Telegraph letter as were Philip Pullman and Richard Dawkins.

The letter was published on the eve of a debate on an amendment to abolish the law against blasphemy to be moved tomorrow Wednesday 9th January in the House of Commons by Evan Harris MP, an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society – as were no fewer than eight signatories of the Telegraph letter.

Stephen Green said today:

“The correspondents are wrong to say the blasphemy law ‘purports to protect beliefs’. ‘His Dark Materials’ and ‘The God Delusion’ have been published, both criticising Christian beliefs, without falling foul of it. No, the blasphemy law seeks primarily to maintain simple respect for Almighty God, Jesus Christ and the Bible.

“Curiously, it is always the person of the Lord Jesus Christ who is the target of blaspheming poets, playwrights and artists. This was true in the Gay News poem (the most recent successful prosecution for blasphemy) it was true in Jerry Springer the Opera, which is still in the courts, and it is true in the latest case, Terence Koh’s statue currently on display in Gateshead.

“It is not the law against blasphemy which damages social cohesion, it is the lack of any civilised standards of decency, restraint, respect and consideration in the world of the arts. What the Telegraph’s correspondents call ‘freedom of expression’ the rest of us too often have to describe as obscene, blasphemous, offensive, inhuman, pornographic, degrading or just plain crass.

“Of course the law against blasphemy discriminates in favour of Christianity. That is because historically, culturally and constitutionally, the United Kingdom is a Christian country, as Professor Dawkins himself conceded only last month.  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7136682.stm  There can be no expectation from the followers of other faiths that their religions will be protected. The attempt to prosecute Salman Rushdie under the blasphemy laws failed, inevitably and rightly so.

“That being said, the existence of the blasphemy law should engender a proper respect for the sacred and so provide an umbrella of protection for the deeply-held religious beliefs of others. Respect for others comes, as Jesus Christ said in His parable of the unjust judge, from respect for God. God may not need the protection of such a law, but the social fabric of our society clearly does. And the recognition that God ‘can take care of Himself’ should fill us with holy fear, not the desire to humiliate His name.

“Dragging up the partisan Law Commission in support hardly helps the atheist case, nor does the illogicality of saying that no-one will be convicted under the blasphemy law, but that its existence is in breach of human rights law. On the latter point, that is the opposite of what the European Court of Human Rights has actually held (in Wingrove and Preminger), and as to whether anyone will be convicted, let’s wait and see, shall we?

“As the Bishop of Rochester said at the weekend, we need to affirm the Christian roots of British society. It is precisely the spiritual weakness of secularism with its multiculturalist (for which read anti-Christian) philosophy which has opened the door to Muslim ambition to turn this country, slowly but relentlessly, into an Islamic state. Only Christianity has the spiritual muscle to resist such a force, but we need to start standing up for Christianity, for God, Jesus Christ and the Bible, before it becomes illegal to do so.”

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As the Chinese authorities continue their persecution of the Christian Church, a statue by a Chinese artist attacking Jesus Christ is on show in the North-East of England.

The statue by Terence Koh, who was born in Beijing , but now lives in New York, is part of a collection owned by Newcastle-born Anita Zabludowicz which is being exhibited until 20th January at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead.

The 1ft-high depiction of Christ with an erection is the central figure in the exhibition.

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said today:

‘It is particularly chilling that a Chinese artist should create such a sculpture, while the Chinese authorities are doing everything they can to oppress the Christian Church in China, imprisoning and torturing pastors for their faith in the very Jesus Christ Koh is humiliating.  Koh is supporting the Chinese atheist regime from the comfort of his home in New York and spitting in the face of his countrymen persecuted for their faith.

‘Koh has previously exhibited work with a pornographic theme, so there must be a lot going on his mind and his life which, ironically, badly needs the saving and healing grace of Jesus Christ.’

Anita Zabludowicz is a well-known collector in the arts world.  She is married to Chaim Zabludowicz, also known as ‘Poju’, the billionaire Finnish-born businessman and gaming magnate.

Stephen Green went on: ‘Chaim Zabludowicz is also chairman of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, a pro-Israel pressure group.  Both Chaim and Anita are well-known in Jewish circles.  Christians, many of whom support the state of Israel not least in prayer, would normally expect more respect for their faith from those of the cultivated olive tree (Rom 11:13-24).

‘The exhibition also reveals all that is wrong with the arts in the United Kingdom . Parliament is debating whether to allow the creation of human/animal embryos, we are killing our own children by abortion, what passes for our civilisation is becoming daily more crass, sexualised, selfish and disrespectful, schools and families are failing to teach children eternal standards of behaviour, family breakdown is causing misery and contributing, along with drunkenness and drug-taking, to crime.  The police detection rate in Gateshead is only 30%, while violent crime there is up 8.6%. A culture of lies and spin permeates and degrades politics and our troops are dying in illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

‘Yet with all these legitimate targets for the arts to expose, all the Director of the Baltic Centre, Peter Doroshenko, and Chairman Sir Ian Wrigglesworth seem able to do is put on an exhibition ridiculing the Son of God who alone can redeem sinners and transform our society from evil to righteousness.

‘The Baltic Centre project itself cost £46 million of taxpayers’ money. £34 million came from the National Lottery via the Arts Council and the rest was provided by various public bodies including Gateshead Council.

‘The Centre costs £3 million per year to run, of which half is being squandered by the Lottery.  From the Baltic Centre website, it seems a lot of that money goes on parties for arts insiders.

‘Evil displays like this only happen because the Church in our land allows them to.  I hope and pray there will be an outcry from the Church in Gateshead and across the UK which will cause all involved to examine their own lives and repent of their sins.’

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