Related
Translate
Get RNB via RSS
 |
RNB's RSS feed What is this? |
Get RNB via Email
 |
 Subscribe by Email What is this? |
Follow: Twitter
Most Popular
This Week:
- Polygamist Sect Leader Convicted of Sexual Assault
- Jury takes 14 minutes to convict self-proclaimed pot pastor
- Supreme Court upholds cult AUM Shinrikyo members’ death sentences
- Newspaper continues series of exposés of Scientology cult
- Epic Mohammad movie in pipeline
- Coptic Christian Blogger in Egypt Pressured to Convert to Islam in Prison
- Italian judge convicts 23 in CIA kidnapping of Muslim cleric
- Cult leader Warren Jeffs’ attorneys argue sect leader faced wrong charge
- Texas judge limits some records in FLDS trial over polygamy references
- Fort Hood shooting: imam says Nalid Malik Husan ‘didn’t seem like an extremist’
Australia: boy charged for wearing t-shirt degrading Jesus
More articles on this topic: Australia: boy charged for wearing obscene t-shirt
A Gold Coast teenager has been charged by police for wearing a blasphemous t-shirt degrading Jesus.
The boy, 16, was stopped by police in Biggera Waters after he was spotted wearing a t-shirt which claims “Jesus is a (expletive deleted)” and depicts a nun masturbating.
It is a t-shirt for English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth.
The teen was charged with offensive behaviour under the Summary Offences Act 2005 for public nuisance on Monday.
The incident has sparked debate about Australia’s lack of a Bill of Rights.
- Source: Jane Metlikovec, Gold Coast boy charged for wearing obscene t-shirt, Herald Sun, June 25, 2008
Gold Coast lawyer Bill Potts said the arrest highlighted Australia’s need for a Bill of Rights.
“One of the great problems with our country is that we talk about rights such as privacy and freedom of speech and the like but they are not enshrined or protected in any way as they are in America,” he said.
“While there are always limits on freedom of speech, you can’t incite violence or anything like that, it seems to be now more than ever that our rights to freedom of speech and freedom of expression should be protected.
“A Bill of Rights which enshrines that protection is long overdue in this country.”
Mr Potts said charging the teen was ‘ludicrous’ and brought the law into disrepute.
- Source: Ben Dillaway, Teen arrested for ‘blasphemous T-shirt’, News.com.au, June 25, 2008
In 2005, 19-year-old Adam Shepherd was fined £40 and sentenced to 80 hours community for wearing the shirt in England.
In an interview with Kerrang! magazine, Cradle of Filth frontman Dani Filth bizarrely suggested God was working through the band.
“Defaming organised religion openly in public is now a crime? What is wrong with England? Still, the litter problem on our city streets should improve dramatically if they keep handing out 80-odd hour community punishment orders willy-nilly,” he said.
“The country will be spotless in no time, a sure sign that God works in mysterious ways, even through us!”
- Source: Ben Dillaway, Band T-shirt draws charge, Gold Coast, June 26, 2008
What You Can Do From Here
|
Read More Articles On These Topics
Share, Blog About, Bookmark, or Email This Article
Subscribe
Read Another Article
 Previous entry: Comedian Works His Scientology Threat Letter Into His Act; Birmingham (UK) Scientology building deal Next entry: Pastor faces up to 310 years in prison; Vatican poser arrested; Ponzi pastor prosecuted
RNB Homepage with latest headlinesFind Related Information
Find Related Books
|
Share This Article
To share this page simply copy and paste one of these URL's:
