Freedom of speech has been bumping up against religious sensibilities in Britain, with results that cast an interesting light on current sensibilities.* Freedom of speech has been bumping up against religious sensibilities in Britain, with results that cast an interesting light on current sensibilities. At the end of last year a stage play featuring rape and murder in a Sikh temple caused a mob of enraged en·rage tr.v. en·raged, en·rag·ing, en·rag·es To put into a rage; infuriate. [Middle English *enragen, from Old French enrager : en-, causative pref. Sikhs to storm the provincial theater where the play was being performed. More recently the publicly financed BBC-TV stirred loud protests from Christians by announcing the broadcast of a West End musical titled Jerry Springer springer a North American term commonly used to describe heifers close to term with their first calf. : The Opera. This work, described by its producers as "a satire on confessional TV," features a scene in hell where Jerry tries to reconcile Satan with God and Christ. Christ is, as is de rigueur de ri·gueur adj. Required by the current fashion or custom; socially obligatory. [French : de, of + rigueur, rigor, strictness. on the stage nowadays, shown as a homosexual. One London One London is a British political party formed on September 1, 2005 by Damian Hockney and Peter Hulme-Cross. Both of them were originally elected to the London Assembly in June 2004 as United Kingdom Independence Party representatives, but in February 2005 announced the formation newspaper counted 451 taboo words in the show, including 117 occurrences of "f***" and seven of "c***." Christian protests notwithstanding, the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. went ahead and aired the Springer musical at 10 o'clock on a Saturday night. The Sikhs were more successful in their protest than the Christians: The theater they assaulted withdrew the offending play. We await a BBC-TV production grossly offensive to the sensitivities of Sikhs or Muslims. |
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