Benjamin Cohen, the founder of a the gay publisher PinkNews, will tell
Radio 4
listeners in a talk to be broadcast this week that, just like
homosexual
people, Jesus was punished “for something he couldn't help”.
He will directly compare the sense of “abandonment” felt by people who
come
out as gay to being on a cross and speaks about how much gay men have
in
common with Jesus.
And in a commentary ahead of the broadcast, he also likens the treatment
of
young gay people by some churches and religious groups to Jesus’s
trial in
front of the High Priest when he was condemned to death and handed
over to
the Romans.
Mr Cohen, a former Channel 4 News correspondent and founder and the
online gay
marriage campaign Out4Marriage, makes the comparison in one of Radio
4’s
“Lent talk” slots....
Daily Telegraph.
All sounds quite reasonable to me.
The Telegraph online has also published an article on this by Ben.
Though in the interests of balance found two Christian loons to be outraged.
Andrea Williams, the director of Christian Concern, somewhat predictably, says it's "blasphemous."
“Jesus loves everyone but his message to homosexual community is to turn away from their previous path.
“The BBC panders to a liberal, politically correct agenda and fails to take the opportunity to explore and educate its listeners about the true meaning of Lent and Easter.”
Ben is just one of six contributors to the Lent Week series, most do just that, but why bother with facts?
As a Radio 4 fan and anti-theist I imagine I'll be turning those ones off.
The retired Bishop of Rochester chipped in with; “Of course there are things about us that we feel we can’t help but by God’s grace he can help us to live in a way that is obedient to him and his word.”
One wonders how many non-retired church ministers they asked to be outraged first - probably best to keep your mouths shut til this Cardinal O'Brien thing blows over, eh?
The Mail also thought they'd give Andrea Miller a call (their old go-to-guy for a rabid anti-gay quote Stephen Green of Christian Voice must be on their shit list these days).
She still felt it was "blasphemous".
Blasphemy and buggery by the BBC - unsurprisingly many online Mail readers have gone HOLY BATSHIT MENTAL!
Daily Telegraph.
All sounds quite reasonable to me.
The Telegraph online has also published an article on this by Ben.
Though in the interests of balance found two Christian loons to be outraged.
Andrea Williams, the director of Christian Concern, somewhat predictably, says it's "blasphemous."
“Jesus loves everyone but his message to homosexual community is to turn away from their previous path.
“The BBC panders to a liberal, politically correct agenda and fails to take the opportunity to explore and educate its listeners about the true meaning of Lent and Easter.”
Ben is just one of six contributors to the Lent Week series, most do just that, but why bother with facts?
As a Radio 4 fan and anti-theist I imagine I'll be turning those ones off.
The retired Bishop of Rochester chipped in with; “Of course there are things about us that we feel we can’t help but by God’s grace he can help us to live in a way that is obedient to him and his word.”
One wonders how many non-retired church ministers they asked to be outraged first - probably best to keep your mouths shut til this Cardinal O'Brien thing blows over, eh?
The Mail also thought they'd give Andrea Miller a call (their old go-to-guy for a rabid anti-gay quote Stephen Green of Christian Voice must be on their shit list these days).
She still felt it was "blasphemous".
Blasphemy and buggery by the BBC - unsurprisingly many online Mail readers have gone HOLY BATSHIT MENTAL!
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Thanks for covering this!
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I suspect this "controversy" was started by the BBC's PR department. How else would they get anyone to listen to their religious crap?
ReplyDeleteI mean, look at the trite stuff they broadcast on that ghastly Prayer for Today. This morning it was someone going on about the pleasures of eating a bog-standard white bread sandwich when you feel hungry.
Hahaha!
ReplyDeleteI dread Prayer For Today - not only for its nutso content but it means my insomnia has been really bad and I've had a sleepless night...
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I'll listen to Ben's tomorrow night, but doubt I'll bother with the rest. Might do, though... I'll see how the mood takes me. I'm impulsive like that.
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