Stephen Green
Stephen Green is the leader of ultra-fundamentalist Christian campaign group Christian Voice, which is so-called because “Stephen Green’s Idiot Talk-Hole Opens And Noise Comes Out” doesn’t sound quite as snappy. What marks Stephen out as an enemy of the people is that unlike most crackpot fundies, Stephen Green is British. Which as its closer to home, makes him even more terrifying. Just like how things that happen to white British people nearby are always more important than natural disasters that happen thousands of miles away. Ahem.
Green is perhaps most well known for having some all-round unpleasant opinions, opposing things like abortion and homosexuality - y’know, the things that society had agreed were alright years ago. In a recent Channel 4 Despatches documentary, he is seen claiming that God once “blessed” Britain, and now he isn’t because of all of this modernity - the typical rose-tinted-memory of something that never happened shared by people on the right (not unlike German volkische nationalism, really) - and worse still, he’s the sort of bore who claims that we need to “repent” to be “saved”.
Green, and his Voice are perhaps best known for being the people who wasted all that time protesting against Jerry Springer: The Opera, a musical parody of the Jerry Springer Show, in which Jesus and Satan play various roles. You’d think God, in his omnipotence wouldn’t really give a damn about mediocre musical (I got as far as the second act before concluding that the joke had worn thin), but I guess he must have been on the phone to Stephen and had a bit of a cry, as Christian Voice mobilised and protested against it - causing a cancer charity to reject a “four figure” donation from a charity performance. That was real Christian of you, Stephen.
Posted on May 22nd, 2008 at 08:00Categories: Religious Figures |
