Comments on: NSS threatens legal action over blocked atheist websites

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:28:12 +0000

Roger, you are a moron. The council have never banned Christmas,no council ever has, that's just Daily Mail made-up rubbish of the lowest calibre. The Winterval thing just extended the Christmas period a little longer. Before you start with the PC gone MAD!!! crap, the tories/lib dems are in charge of B'ham council, and have been for some time.
To be honest, we're better off without you!

By: fizzy

fizzy — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:24:48 +0000

I love how atheists are considered such terrible people. But it’s funny how atheists seem to be peaceful people while religious individuals are always fighting, with other sects within their own religion or other religions.

By: anonymous coward

anonymous coward — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:48:37 +0000

This is all down to the web filtering software not the council imo, if you want a witch hunt I would go after the software makers for making a category which covers so many different subjects.

By: shocked

shocked — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:15:37 +0000

I thought this must have been the states when I saw this. I would imagine common sense will prevail here.

By: Alison Robin

Alison Robin — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:03:43 +0000

I was totally convinced it was Alabama as well.
I don’t know as much about UK policies as I do about those in the USA, but it sounds like there’s a very solid case against the City Council.

By: The Heresiarch

The Heresiarch — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:13:25 +0000

Don't worry. I put this site through the Blue Coat filter system and it came out as "religion"! See may article.

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:41:05 +0000

Having been brought up in Birmingham (the one in the UK) I’m sorry to say that I’m not in the least bit surprised by this news. The city council has long been a hotbed of lunacy and rampant PCism to the denegration and embarrassment of most of it’s citizens.

Birmingham was one of the first places in the UK to ban the word Christmas from it’s city centre Xmas decorations – insisting it went by the awful name of “Winterval” instead. And at one point, Birmingham famously spent £1m a year on a help centre for bereaved lesbians – whilst at the same time gang crime, drugs, prostitution, violence and riots were commonplace and ran unchecked.

Now, I know many on here will not “support” Christmas. I’m an atheist myself, so don’t see it as a time to celebrate Christ’s birth – but I do celebrate Xmas (ok, a semantic arguement, I know) – I see it as a time to celebrate the people I love (in my – possibly deluded – mind, the X in Xmas stands for a kiss). But Winterval – I mean, c’mon !!!

As for the Lesbian centre – well – why do lesbians need bereavement counselling that is any different from any heterosexual or male homosexual person ?! Do Lesbians have a different kind of grief when a loved one dies ?! Not to my knowledge.

So Birmingham has long (and I’m going back 30 odd years here – ever since I was old enough to see the lunacy around me) been a home for stupidity of the first degree. The city council has had innumerable mentions in Private Eye over the years and almost always for some silly bit of PC legislation that upset more people that it helped. This is just the latelst in a LONG line of such idiocies.

Birmingham – a city run by idiots. That’s why I left !

Rog

By: Buffy

Buffy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:11:42 +0000

Funny, I too thought it was Birminham, AL. Their mayor’s “solution” for crime was to order a slew of Bibles and (I wish I were kidding) sackcloths so people could pray in sackcloth and ashes, and read the Bible. Somehow he imagined that would make it all better.

I weep for the future of this nation if things don’t change soon.

By: Michael Cohen

Michael Cohen — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:09:46 +0000

when i first read this I thought they must mean BIRMINGHAM alabama USA–not UK–Is this the first sign of a UK atheist Witch hunt?