Religions > Atheism > Jerry Springer Opera, featuring 'gay Jesus', sparks record 5,500 complaints
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07 Jan 2005 07:38:35 AM |
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Jerry Springer Opera, featuring 'gay Jesus', sparks record 5,500 complaints |
Something tells me that we won't be seeing this on American commercial
TV any time soon.
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Jerry Springer Opera, featuring 'gay Jesus', sparks record 5,500
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Thu Jan 6, 2:14 PM ET
LONDON (AFP) - Plans to broadcast a London musical that features a
nappy-wearing Jesus who admits he is "a bit gay", have sparked a record
5,500 complaints, a television watchdog said.
The BBC nevertheless vowed to go ahead with its plan to show "Jerry
Springer The Opera", based on the controversial US talk show and which
is still playing to packed houses in the West End of London.
The opera contains a total of 3,168 "f"-words and 297 "c"-words. The
expletive-laden songs include Pregnant By A Transsexual and Here Come
The Hookers.
British media regulator Ofcom said it had received 5,500 complaints
about the plan to broadcast the show, which is due to be screened on
Saturday as the centrepiece of Jerry Springer Night on BBC2.
That figure is three times as many as the previous record holder, Martin
Scorsese's film "The Last Temptation of Christ," which sparked 1,554
complaints when it was shown on television here in 1995, it said.
The BBC added that it has received more than 15,000 calls from viewers
concerned about the programme.
But the National Secular Society urged the national broadcaster to stand
firm against "religious bullies".
"This organised attack is the latest of a series of attempts by
religious interests to control what we can see or say in this country,"
said the group's vice-president Terry Sanderson.
The furore follows a Sikh protest in Birmingham over the staging of a
controversial play "Behzti" (Dishonour), which depicts murder and rape
in a fictional Sikh temple.
Violent protests led the Birmingham Repertory Theatre to cancel the
production.
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| User: "Little Me" |
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07 Jan 2005 06:37:23 PM |
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When I first saw this on TV I laughed.
What the hell is wrong with these sexually repressed mongs?! They make a
rod for their own back trying to tell us what we can watch.
BBC2 has said, despite complaints the show will go out anyway.
What a bunch of morons
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| User: "Andrew Lias" |
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| Title: Re: Jerry Springer Opera, featuring 'gay Jesus', sparks record 5,500 complaints |
07 Jan 2005 04:53:54 PM |
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johac wrote:
Something tells me that we won't be seeing this on American
commercial
TV any time soon.
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I've often wondered what the consequence to human culture would be if
someone invented a device that allowed us to peer back in time.
It may be wicked of me, but I can't help smiling at the thought of all
the social upheaval that would be caused if a historical Jesus were
found and it was discovered that he enjoyed a bit of recreational
sodomy with Peter and the gang.
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Andrew Lias
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| User: "Carl Kaufmann" |
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| Title: Re: Jerry Springer Opera, featuring 'gay Jesus', sparks record 5,500complaints |
07 Jan 2005 11:07:14 PM |
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Andrew Lias wrote:
johac wrote:
Something tells me that we won't be seeing this on American
commercial
TV any time soon.
[...]
I've often wondered what the consequence to human culture would be if
someone invented a device that allowed us to peer back in time.
It may be wicked of me, but I can't help smiling at the thought of all
the social upheaval that would be caused if a historical Jesus were
found and it was discovered that he enjoyed a bit of recreational
sodomy with Peter and the gang.
--
Andrew Lias
Although they only briefly address the Jesus issue, Arthur C. Clarke
and ??? wrote a book about this. Damn my faulty memory, I can't
remember the title either.
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alt.atheist #1966
"Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient
citizenship as the ability to read and write." - H.G. Wells
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| User: "Andrew Lias" |
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| Title: Re: Jerry Springer Opera, featuring 'gay Jesus', sparks record 5,500 complaints |
07 Jan 2005 11:25:09 PM |
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Carl Kaufmann wrote:
Andrew Lias wrote:
I've often wondered what the consequence to human culture would be
if
someone invented a device that allowed us to peer back in time.
It may be wicked of me, but I can't help smiling at the thought of
all
the social upheaval that would be caused if a historical Jesus were
found and it was discovered that he enjoyed a bit of recreational
sodomy with Peter and the gang.
Although they only briefly address the Jesus issue, Arthur C. Clarke
and ??? wrote a book about this. Damn my faulty memory, I can't
remember the title either.
_The Light of Other Days_ with Stephen Baxter (although the idea is
much older, going at least as far back as an Asimov's short story from
the 40's whose title currently eludes me).
As for the book...
[SPOILERS]
I thought that it had some of very worst characterization that I've
ever seen in a book (especially with the megalomaniacal dad and the
bitchy -- excuse me, empowered -- female reporter) and a plot that left
a whole helluva lot to be desired. An almost thoroughly awful book
except for one, single transcendant sequence (where they're diving back
through the history of life) that almost, but not quite, managed to
redeem the rest.
I also thought that they wussed out on the Jesus question by taking the
wishy-washy "historical" Jesus perspective that liberal theologians
like to imagine.
But that's just my two cents. ;-)
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Andrew Lias
http://andrewlias.blogspot.com
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Jerry Springer Opera, featuring 'gay Jesus', sparks record 5,500 complaints |
08 Jan 2005 08:23:37 AM |
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In article <1105116834.710273.51010@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
"Andrew Lias" <anrwlias@gmail.com> wrote:
johac wrote:
Something tells me that we won't be seeing this on American
commercial
TV any time soon.
[...]
I've often wondered what the consequence to human culture would be if
someone invented a device that allowed us to peer back in time.
It may be wicked of me, but I can't help smiling at the thought of all
the social upheaval that would be caused if a historical Jesus were
found and it was discovered that he enjoyed a bit of recreational
sodomy with Peter and the gang.
There would be a massive coverup, the likes of which have never been
seen.
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Andrew Lias
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John Hachmann aa #1782
Intelligent Design has as much to do with science as reality
television has to do with reality. - Barry Lynn on CNN 12/25/04
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| User: "Chris H" |
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| Title: Re: Jerry Springer Opera, featuring 'gay Jesus', sparks record 5,500complaints |
07 Jan 2005 06:07:45 PM |
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johac wrote:
Something tells me that we won't be seeing this on American commercial
TV any time soon.
A crying shame, because it is blindingly funny - I don't think I have
laughed at anything so much in a long time.
The chorus singing about what a sort of person the devil is is where a
lot of 297 "c"-words come from :-)
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Jerry Springer Opera, featuring 'gay Jesus', sparks record 5,500
complaints
I don't think they are going to win, the Beeb can't be seen to back down
after the play about Sikhs managed was halted because of violent protest.
[snip]
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C.
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Jerry Springer Opera, featuring 'gay Jesus', sparks record 5,500 complaints |
08 Jan 2005 08:29:14 AM |
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In article <41decff1$0$23060$5a6aecb4@news.aaisp.net.uk>,
Chris H <No@None.no> wrote:
johac wrote:
Something tells me that we won't be seeing this on American commercial
TV any time soon.
A crying shame, because it is blindingly funny - I don't think I have
laughed at anything so much in a long time.
I hope it becomes available on DVD at some point.
The chorus singing about what a sort of person the devil is is where a
lot of 297 "c"-words come from :-)
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Jerry Springer Opera, featuring 'gay Jesus', sparks record 5,500
complaints
I don't think they are going to win, the Beeb can't be seen to back down
after the play about Sikhs managed was halted because of violent protest.
The problem in the US is that the evangelicals run the government,
including the FCC and many of their allies run the broadcast companies.
[snip]
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John Hachmann aa #1782
Intelligent Design has as much to do with science as reality
television has to do with reality. - Barry Lynn on CNN 12/25/04
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