In an unsurprising display of hypocrisy, UK “Christian” hate group “Christian” Voice has broken the ninth of the ten commandments, the one about not bearing false witness against your neighbour”, a commandment often broken by those socalled Christian groups more inspired by hate than love. This particular group has been best known for going nuts about Jerry Springer: the Opera, where they managed to convince the cancer charity Maggie’s Centres to decline a four-figure donation from the proceeds of a special performance of the opera. In a rare display of karma, their head nutcase, Stephen Green then sued the makers of the opera for blasphemy, lost the court case, was ordered to pay the legal costs of his opponents and now is in danger of going bankrupt. Couldn’t have happen to a nicer guy.
Nevertheless this hasn’t stopped “Christian” Voice from making a nuisance of themselves, this time being offended by something very important indeed: a Barbie doll! Said Barbie doll, being part of a range of figures modeled on famous DC comics superheroines, is dressed in the costume of Black Canary, a heroine with a pedigree going back to 1947. The “Christian” Voice activists however insist that this is a “S&M Barbie” and “pure filth”, which in my book is definately bearing false witness to both Mattel and DC.
As you can see from the picture, only a loon would describe this as a “S&M outfit”, but of course if Christian Voice told the truth and said they were disgusted with a mildly sexy dressed Barbie doll even more people would laugh at them than they do now. By breaking the ninth commandment they at least get their press release in The Sun, which is always in for a bit of moral panic, even if their regular page three feature hardly confirms with the kind of morals “Christian” Voice allegedly supports.
and hey, what’s more important: actually attempting to abide by some of the most important commandments of your religion, or getting your name in the papers?
