Stephen Green of Christian Voice managed to get a poetry reading shut down this week. Waterstones of Cardiff cancelled the launch of Patrick Jones’s Darkness is Where the Stars Are after threats of disruption from the fundamentalist Christian.
Meanwhile, Mr Green seemed to threaten the Baltic Gallery and art collector Anita Zabludowicz after the CPS found that the gallery had no case to answer in a civil suit taken against the gallery over a statue of Jesus with an erect penis that had been displayed there earlier this year.
Mr Green was quoted as saying:
“This decision urges Christians to create public disorder if we want a similar case to proceed in future. We are naturally reluctant to do that and it puts us in new territory. On the other hand, there were those at the Baltic Centre who wanted to take matters into their own hands and I have warned Anita Zabludowicz that her statue will not survive being put on public display again.
“If the CPS wanted to give the green light to blasphemous art their decision may paradoxically have the opposite effect. With the threat of destruction hanging over it, the Zabludowicz statue is now locked away by its wealthy owners and is unlikely to see the light of day again. The same will go for any other blasphemous works of so-called art. Put simply, Christians won’t tolerate insults to Jesus Christ.”
Green currently faces bankruptcy after being ordered to pay £90,000 court fees when his attempted prosecution of the BBC’s Mark Thompson, for the screening of Jerry Springer The Opera, failed.
Hat tip: Brett at Harry’s Place
