“Jerry Springer” blasphemy case thrown out of court
Thursday, January 18th, 2007
The Evangelical Christian pressure group, Christian Voice, whose membership sometimes seems to consist soley of its national director Stephen Green, has had an attempted private prosecution for blasphemy thrown out of court.
Green was attempting to bring the case, under rarely used criminal law targetting “blasphemy”, in response to a televised performance of comic musical Jerry Springer The Opera, first broadcast two years ago. The director-general of the BBC (Mark Thompson), and the producer of the televised show (Jon Thoday), would have faced personal criminal charges, though the writer of the book (Stewart Lee) and the composer (Richard Thomas) were not being accused.
