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Our Objections
Our objections against Bridget McConnel, Culture and Sport Glasgow and the Glasgow City Council are as follows:
Culture and Sport Glasgow has funded and promoted numerous events with what appears to be a deliberate and calculated attack on the person of Christ, the Holy Bible, Christians and indeed against all decent, moral and ethical standards in general. 'Made in His Image' Exhibition This so called 'exhibition', encouraged those who feel they have been ‘excluded’ from the Bible, to write themselves back into the Bible provided for that purpose. Of course, as any sensible person would have been able to predict, the pages were promptly torn out and all manner of nonsense and filth was written in the Bible provided by those who have little love or respect for the Bible and what it says about their sin. This exhibition was widely condemned bringing international shame on Glasgow with almost all the media and religious authorities (of many faiths) condemning this act of state sanctioned vandalism. Was the exhibition stopped - NO! The Bible was merely placed in a glass case instead and visitors wrote their comments on a piece of paper that museum staff would themselves place in the Bible for them. Surely no reasonable person can ever consider something as tasteless and so obviously offensive as this - as either culture or art - however 'edgy' or 'leading edge' they may claim it may be! Sadly it seems, however, that Glasgow City Council and Culture and Sport Glasgow (CSG) do believe it is their place and duty to offend the public by supporting and funding these events. Not only was it CSG who helped fund this monstrous exhibition (and others below) to the tune of almost £240,000.00, but they have since refused to cease the funding of these offensive events or guaranteed to withhold funding of these types of events and programmes in the future.
'sh(OUT)' Exhibition and Events Once again defacing the Bible was at the forefront of this so called 'exhibition' and a series of events about 'human rights'. One 'exhibit' was a video of a woman tearing pages from the Bible, eating them and putting them in her underwear and every other imaginable place around her body. In addition to this, there was also an explicit exhibition of what can only be described as homosexual pornography which these stewards of YOUR money felt was suitable to invite local school children to visit! With such grotesque events like 'orifice day' open to the public, one wonders to what depths and extremes CSG and Glasgow City Council will sink to, and yet still continue to justify attacks on Christ, on Christians, and on all moral and right thinking people in the name of so called 'culture and art'! Indeed when the controversy about these exhibits made the news many of these events where withdrawn from the CSG website indicating that even CSG acknowledged their content was unsuitable. Yet still Culture and Sport Glasgow refuse to cease funding events like these, now or in the future!
'Jesus Queen of Heaven' Play This play was not only grossly offensive but totally inaccurate in it's portrayal of Christ as a transsexual who 'loves everyone' regardless of their sin (breaking Gods Holy Law as summarised in the Ten Commandments (Exodus Chapter 20)). Once again it is hard to imagine any sane and upright person ever considering that this play would NOT be offensive and insulting to Christians. Yet Glasgow City Council and Culture and Sport Glasgow continue to insist that these events were never intended to offend. Would CSG sanction such events Would CSG sanction such events about Allah, the Koran or other religious founders and leaders? We very much doubt it and are thankful for that. So why this concerted and calculated attack on Christ, His word - the Bible and His people - true Christians. The State Sanctioned Abuse
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NEVER - EVER - and NEVER should be! So to then discover that not only have CSG taken it upon themselves to offend the largest single group in Glasgow (Christians - 65%), but they have done so by using significant sums of YOUR tax payers money (see below). Here is the basic text of a freedom of information request made to the CSG.
Here are the figures in the response....
Remember this decision is made by a committee whose Chief Executive earns £132,000.00 1 of YOUR taxes ! So you tell us.... Should ANY tax payers money EVER be used for ANYTHING so obviously offensive to such a large constituent of Glasgow's population (65% Christian) ?
We Say an Emphatic - NO? The State Sanctioned Abuse
MUST Stop
In fact she still continues to defend this outrageous abuse of Christ and the misuse of tax payers money. Surely no reasonable and right thinking person, particularly one with public responsibilities, could possibly claim they never thought that these events and programmes would be so grossly offensive to Christians. As this is exactly what Mrs McConnell claims, this indicates only two very troubling possibilities – one, she knew in ADVANCE that these events and programmes would be offensive – but proceeded anyway – or two, she lacks the necessary judgement required of such a high profile position by not recognising what appears so obvious to most reasonable people. With all this in mind is it unreasonable to ask if Bridget McConnell has the competence, ability or even the common sense to hold this sensitive and high profile post? Whilst she:-
Are Glaswegian's expected to simply sit back and accept (and fund) more events and programmes so blatantly offensive to the person of Christ, His followers and all decent people? We Say an Emphatic - NO? If these are our objections - what are our aims to rectify them? 1 - as quoted on www.heraldscotland.com 28 Nov 2009
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