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[Big_Bird]

I'm pleased the case against this ranting homophobe was dropped

But if the police had used New Labour's dangerous catch-all harassment legislation, they might well have got their man

George Monbiot
Tuesday October 3, 2006
The Guardian


Stephen Green represents everything most readers of the Guardian loathe. As head of the organisation Christian Voice, he sought to have Jerry Springer: the Opera banned from theatres and the BBC, and prosecuted for blasphemy. When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans he issued a press release claiming that it was God's judgment on the city's celebration of "fetishism, sadism, promiscuity, indecency, obscenity and all the other tawdry aspects of homosexual life ... Purity blew into New Orleans and purity broke the levees and flooded the city." He wants to reintroduce the death penalty and impose "restorative justice on the biblical model".

More entertainingly, he claims that Pakistan's cricket team lost the last Test series because he prayed that God would punish Mohammad Yousuf, one of their leading players, for his conversion to Islam. "The way in which the umpires handled the initial alleged offence of tampering with the ball, and then the massive umbrage Pakistan took ... is the sort of unexpected event which only Almighty God can bring about."

Yet we should be pleased that the charges he faced last week have been dropped. Stephen Green is offensive, intolerant and illiberal. But so is the law under which he was arrested.

Green had been handing out leaflets to the revellers at the Mardi Gras gay and lesbian festival in Cardiff at the beginning of September. By his standards they were pretty mild. They quoted Leviticus and Romans, compared homosexuality to incest and claimed that "by faith in Jesus it is even possible to be healed of homosexual desires ... you do have a choice as to whether you continue in a lifestyle which leads to hell, or whether you decide to put yourself right with God through belief in the Lord Jesus Christ."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1886186,00.html

[Junior]

I never condemned gays! Where did i evr say that?
Dogbert didn't take offence. If he had I would have stopped, out of consideration for his feelings.