Comments on: South Wales Echo caves in to Christian bigots – petition the paper to retract its shameful apology

By: Twat of the Week: Stephen Green « Copland III

Twat of the Week: Stephen Green « Copland III — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:13:35 +0000

[...] to get the South Wales Echo to retract an article because it implied that Jebus (if he existed) might have been gay. What part of if you don’t like it, don’t read it and fuck off don’t they get? I [...]

By: The Freethinker › Will the South Wales Echo now apologise to Muslims?

The Freethinker › Will the South Wales Echo now apologise to Muslims? — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:12:54 +0000

[...] of Stephen “Birdshit” Green – shouted back Boo! The paper scuttled away in full panic mode, apologised to Christians for offending them, and promptly removed the offending item – a column by Dan O’Neill – from [...]

By: SMOKEY DEMON

SMOKEY DEMON — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:57:35 +0000

Why are christians so quick to take offense at any supposed slight and so quick to point out anyone else’s faults? Didn’t their bastard god say something about removing the beam from your eye before pointing out the mote in your neighbors?

By: The Freethinker › Censorship net closes in

The Freethinker › Censorship net closes in — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:53:18 +0000

[...] we had that exceedingly foolish apology from the South Wales Echo to the Clown Prince of British evangelism, the maggot bigot Stephen [...]

By: Etum

Etum — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:06:25 +0000

I would have signed the petition if it didn’t require me to fill in my email.

By: theholyllama

theholyllama — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:34:16 +0000

@ Frymaster. The issue isn’t that Christians especially deserve to be offended, it’s that they don’t especially deserve not to be offended, however much they think they do.

And if the paper was just saying ‘no offence meant, sorry’, why have they pulled the ‘offending’ article from their website?

By: frymaster

frymaster — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:07:21 +0000

Actually I think it’s a masterful apology:

“our columnist Dan O’Neill offended a number of Christians.” – true if some of them wrote in

“We would like to apologise for any offence caused to those people” – fair enough, I don’t think offence was intended

At the end of the day, it says “some people were offended, we did mean for that to happen, and it is regretted” – it does _not_ say anywhere that they do not stand by their original article

Unless you think Christians (or anyone else) _deserves_ to be offended, surely that’s fair enough.

By: The Freethinker › Green’s latest protest – like his petition – was a complete washout

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:57:36 +0000

[...] local paper which, at the first whiff of controversy, abandoned its journalistic integrity, issued a shameful, grovelling retraction, and went sprinting for [...]

By: Marge

Marge — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:58:27 +0000

I would love to get anyone’s reaction to a Google entry titled “God to Same-Sexers: Hurry Up.” Thanks. Marge

By: tony ewing

tony ewing — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:29:25 +0000

I’ll keep it brief – Stephen Green – what a tosser.