Christian zealot Stephen Green is facing bankruptcy over his failed bid to bring a blasphemy case against Jerry Springer The Opera.
The head of lobby group Christian Voice had been ordered to pay £90,000 in costs after losing his long-running battle against the show and its screening on BBC Two.
Now he wants licence-fee payers to cover his bill, saying it would be a better way of spending viewers’ money than funding BBC Three and Four.
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I quite enjoyed that Opera~
Also, if he thinks I'm going to pay for his stupidity, he can fuck right off.
Is blasphemy even still a crime? If so, WHY!?
Oh, and BBC3 and BBC4 may be rubbish, but even BBC Parliament is a better way to spend my money than giving it to the kind of idiot who would waste years suing the BBC for showing a crap opera.
"Christian" Stephen Green brought a case against the show and the BBC for blasphemy.
He lost and was ordered to pay £90,000.
Now he wants that £90k to come out of the budget of the BBC, the people he brought the case against.
I bet he does, but somehow I don't think when the court ordered he pay the fees for his failed case against the BBC, what it had in mind was for the BBC to pay his costs as well as their own. Apparently, Stephen has found a wider application for the concept that belief trumps fact.
Stephen Green said, "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."
But causing them to incur £90,000 of legal fees defending themselves against your claims that their actions upset your imaginary friend is all right in "your book" is it?
[About the other side's solicitors' decision to pursue those who funded Green's original court action.] "I should go to prison rather than reveal their names, even if I could remember who they were."
Romans 13, fundtard, read it and pay-the-fuck-up! Also, lying for Jesus is still lying.
@ #615828
This was "Jerry Springer - The Opera". It makes fun of Jerry Springer with such things as line dancing KKK members. The premise of it is that Jerry gets shot, and ends up doing a show in the afterlife where Jesus (with a messiah complex) and Satan (the unwanted child) are brothers, and Jerry tries to get them to work out their differences.
I loved the show. I really don't understand the Blasphemy, it doesn't deny God exists, it doesn't even speak out against the bible. In Job it makes it clear that Satan is a son of God, so wouldn't that make him and Jesus brothers?
BlackMageJ wrote:
"Is blasphemy even still a crime? If so, WHY!?" This is one of the few areas of Secularism in which we Americans have you Brits beat.
Yes, Blasphemy against the Church of England is still, officially, a crime in Great Britain. Dunno the last time it was enforced, but the law is still on the books.
Such a law would be thrown out as Unconstitutional here in the U.S..
@tracer: Actually, just hot off the press, it's not on the books anymore since Tuesday. Wahey! :) The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 was passed on May 8th, and the abolishment of blasphemy offences (section 79 of that act) came into effect two months later, i.e. on July 8th. So we have finally joined our American cousins, albeit 230 years late :)
lol, i love this. "BBC should pay my legal costs", what an idiot.
@ Thundersqueaks - brilliant pic.
I'd much rather keep BBC3 & BBC4 if it's all the same to you?
If they offend you that much, I'll come round and show you how to work your remote control.
Before you push a legal case, you ought to check whether the perceived crime is an actual crime in the country you're in.
No, a better way to spend viewers money is not to pay for your idiocy, but to pay for more comedy shows.
Now he wants licence-fee payers to cover his bill
When Aunty Beeb have just forked out £200,000 to another Christian nary 24 hours ago, think again, Stevie-boy.
At least Sir Cliff Richard had a case.
We shat in your general direction! Your mother was a seagull, and your father smelled of what came out of her!
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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