Jesus v. Jerry

Broadway will be denied one of the few original musicals now that the Christian Voice has gone Godfather on the show.

Despite being a hit in England, the UK's Christian Voice has protested the play, especially since it was run last month on the BBC in full (man, British TV is so much more interesting than ours).

"This is a blasphemous and a filth-filled production," says Stephen Green, national director of Christian Voice (quote from article).

Now it is up to the Christian Voice to save us from ourselves. They've even gone so far as to protect a Scottish cancer center's integrity by pressuring them into not taking donations from the play's profits.

According to the CNN article, "Green said his group helped the charity avoid a 'potential public relations disaster of profiting from filth and blasphemy.'"

Something tells me that the Christian Voice knows a thing or two about public relations distasters.



a note: while yes, I've now listed two groups who have lobbied for things to be stopped or shut down, it's not a question of a political agenda that I have so much as an agenda of "Dear god, don't they have something better to protest?"