Millennium Centre fobs off 100 churches
The Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff has rejected calls from over 100 churches to cancel Jerry Springer: The Opera. The letter from the church leaders parotted most of the usual complaints, including the classic “I cannot imagine the Millennium Centre staging a show which mocked any other religion in this way.”
The WMC responded:
History is full of controversial pieces of art which today appear tame.
Jerry Springer – The Opera may be thought provoking, but then again art should both challenge and entertain people.
WMC respects the rights of people to express their views and we have dealt sensitively with all those who have written to us with their comments.
Theatre director Michael Bogdanov added:
If you give in to what is, in fact, a minority protest then you are on a slippery slope not just to censorship but to a kind of Stalinist regime where everything is repressed.
Sir David Rowe-Beddoe is chairman on both the Millennium Centre and the Church in Wales’ Representative Board. This has led to calls from Stephen “Dog Shit” Green of Christian Voice has called for his resignation from one of his posts:
His position is completely untenable and he cannot carry on in both roles.
Only if he subscribes to the same narrow, censorious version of xianity as Green. Many xians do not.
UPDATE: Archbishop of Wales, Barry Morgan, has distanced himself from Christian Voice by backing to Rowe-Beddoe.
So let’s get this right then – if the Millennium Centre was dumb enough to put on ‘Fiddler On The Roof’ they shouldn’t be suprised if the Anti Defamation League took the cast out for insulting Judaism?
Hmm!!!