Stephen Green (Christian Voice)
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Stephen Green is the leader of Christian Voice (UK), coming to media promenance through the outcry against Jerry Springer - The Opera.
He is a fundamentalist Christian, previously an Anglican, he now attends an Assemblies of God Church and has worked in the building trade. In the early 1990s Green was a prominent campaigner against homosexuality through the Conservative Family Campaign, and wrote a book called "The Sexual Dead-End" giving his opinions in detail. On 2 September 2006, Green was arrested in Cardiff at the city's Mardi Gras for distributing leaflets of a homophobic nature. The text of the leaflet says, quoting the Bible at length to support his belief, that whilst same-sex love is not a sin, sexual activity between members of the same sex is. The leaflet then asserts that sinners can be saved through the death of Jesus if they offer a full repentance[1]. On Thursday, 28th September, 2006, the case against Stephen Green was dropped by Cardiff Magistrates Court, as there was no evidence to present against the defendent.
Green disapproves of teaching about other religions in school and especially the celebration of Diwali.
Stephen Green has been the subject of much criticism on various Internet forums over what some see as a particularly fickle stance on the subject of freedom of speech and the right to be offensive.
On an episode of the ITV debate show It's My Life, Green condemned theatre owners selling tickets for the Jerry Springer Opera for their decision to "plough on anyway" in the knowledge that the show would cause offense to some Christians. However, since appearing on the show, Green has orchestrated numerous 'witnessings' to gay march events, dismissing the offense that this inevitably causes to some as applying only to the "fragile sensitivities of homosexuals."
On the Christian Voice website on a page called 'Those Dr Laura Questions Answered', Green states that a member of the public overheard to curse and/or 'blaspheme' should be apprehended and convicted by a judge and jury. Green also encourages readers to shop people to the police for working on the Sabbath day. However, following his own arrest in September 2006, by the South Wales Minorities Unit, for refusing to stop distributing leaflets at a Mardi Gras, Green slammed the police for treating members of the public like "thought criminals."
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- ^ "Same-Sex Love - Same-Sex Sex - What does the Bible say?", leaflet distributed at Cardiff Mardi Gras, Christian Voice, September 02, 2006, retrieved September 07, 2006.
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