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Originally Posted by Ramblingsid
This Green bloke does seem to be a bit of a twerp. I notice he views God as something that should be feared. Weird.
But you are right, the only intelligent response is to go and buy the book and read it.
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Personally, I'm also going to write to Waterstones to raise my concern at why they caved in so easily.
If, as Jones's website asserts, threats of violence had been made, then where were the police?
Green has form. He's a thoroughly nasty piece of work, who rose to prominence in the row over the BBC's screening of
Jerry Springer: the Opera, and he has attempted to sue the Beeb on the grounds of the old blasphemy laws that this stupid and religion-obsessed government will not remove from the statute book.
He has actually been banned from having an account at the Co-Op Bank because of the homophobic views of him and his organisation, since these are completely at odds with the Co-Op's ethos on equality etc.
Of course, although he wants to ban lots of things (such as this book of verse), he whinges that his views don't get enough airtime (despite having become rent-a-gob for Christian fundamentalism in the UK; many parts of the media just love quoting him).
So he's not only a bigot a nutter, he's also a hypocrite too.
But this really worries me – we're getting so afraid of offending religious people that things like this are happening with increasing frequency.