Christian Institute throws a fit
The fundamentalist homophobes of the Christian Institute are the latest to complain about the BBC broadcast of a gay Christian service from San Francisco last Sunday. Like the Daily Mail, they by seek to exaggerate the depravity of the event focusing on a bingo once night held at the church by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The bingo night was blocked by the church when they found out about its naughty nature.
The CI’s press release on the subject is a case study in paranoia and twisted logic. Colin Hart, is the director:
This is another slap in the face for Christians from the BBC. Can you imagine the BBC broadcasting a Islamic service from a fringe Mosque which hosted transvestite and gay bingo nights with sex toys and porn videos for prizes? The BBC’s blasphemous broadcasts now extend to their Sunday services.
Well, no. Probably because such events only exist in the fevered imaginations of members of the Christian Institute – if there.
In my view the BBC, as a public body, is discriminating on grounds of religion against Christians. It took this decision to broadcast a service from a fringe church in full knowledge that it would cause deep offence to a majority of Christians. I hope that Christians will make their views known in a calm and firm way.
So by broadcasting a Christian service by and for Christians the BBC is somehow “discrimination on grounds of religion against Christians”.
The Christian institute recently built a million-pound headquarters in Tyneside. The question is, does it have padded wallpaper?
And how long before we hear a statement from Stephen Green’s Voice?
What, exactly, is the fundamentalist objection to bingo?
Also, while I see the prizes are more interesting, are there different rules to gay bingo? Can’t help thinking Mecca might be missing a trick here.
Mecca would be a good place to hold gay bingo, Stuart. Hmm. On second thoughts …
Can you imagine the BBC broadcasting a Islamic service from a fringe Mosque which hosted transvestite and gay bingo nights with sex toys and porn videos for prizes?
Oh joy! Oh delight! How can I join this mosque? Might it be “The Little Mosque on the Prairie”?
Hey Andy, just discovered there’s a chain of halls called ‘Gala Bingo’ too.
Might be a better bet than Mecca, certainly better than Rank, whose charitable foundation still seems to favour youth organisations ‘with a Christian ethos’.