THERE was outrage back in May when the Bolzano museum of modern art in Italy acquired a sculpture by the late German artist Martin Kippenberger depicting a frog on a cross.
Local bishop Wilhelm Egger moaned:
The crucified frog has shocked many visitors and has hurt their religious feelings. Even if this was not the intention of [...]
OUR jellyfish prize this week for spineless grovelling must to go to the South Wales Echo, which has buckled under pressure from a bunch of vindictive bigots over a piece it published by Dan O’Neill.
Cynical Dragon reported yesterday that the paper has issued this apology to the handful of Christian Voice wankers who picketed its [...]
WHILST regaling ourselves reading the comments on “Birdshit” Green’s online petition, we stumbled across this intriguing reaction from Malcolm Stinker (No 1,316):
I am appalled by some comments left on this website making out that Christians are a bunch of medieval reactionaries more interested in sticking our noses into other people’s sex lives than in leading [...]
MORE bad news for the Catholic Church in Ireland, which has suffered a number of setbacks in this increasingly sceptical country: the offence of blasphemy is likely to be dropped from the Irish Constitution.
According to the Irish Independent, the joint committee on the Constitution said last Friday that changes to the Constitution in the areas [...]
THE British Board of Film Censors – no longer hamstrung by “blasphemy” concerns now that this “crime” has been abolished in the UK – has approved, without cuts, a pornographic film called Passio. It has been given an R18 rating.
Featuring Danny Fox as a homosexual Jesus, Passio – full title: Passio: Domini Nostri Secundum Matthaeum [...]
