{"id":3388,"date":"2007-12-07T03:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/court_rejects_blasphemy_case_against_jerry_springer_opera\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T03:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T03:20:00","slug":"court_rejects_blasphemy_case_against_jerry_springer_opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=3388","title":{"rendered":"Court Rejects Blasphemy Case Against Jerry Springer Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Christian activist group has lost its battle in Britain&#8217;s High Court to prosecute a BBC executive and a producer under the nation&#8217;s blasphemy laws for televising &#8220;Jerry Springer&#8211;The Opera&#8221; nearly three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The two-judge court on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that the musical, based on Jerry Springer&#8217;s racy U.S. talk show, could not be considered blasphemous since it did not target Christianity, but rather attacked the talk-show program genre itself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The play had been performed regularly in major theaters in London for a period of nearly two years without sign of it undermining society or occasioning civil strife or unrest,&#8221; the High Court said in its ruling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/article_detail.cfm?AID=9798\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Christian activist group has lost its battle in Britain&#8217;s High Court to prosecute a BBC executive and a producer under the nation&#8217;s blasphemy laws for televising &#8220;Jerry Springer&#8211;The Opera&#8221; nearly three years ago. The two-judge court on Wednesday upheld<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=3388\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,199,114,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}