h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

He used to be the Mayor of a moderate-sized Californian town; the name escapes me for the moment, but Google should know...

He used to be the mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Ah, OK. My memory is a little flaky.

He also campaigned under the Democrat banner in the 2004 elections to become Senator of Ohio, I think, and I'm pretty sure he also ran for Govenor of the state at one point....

but my memory is flaky too

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4098752.stm

The Christian Institute (one of the tin-pot pressure groups that was set up this year) has failed to get permission from the high court to get a judicial review against the BBC over the show.

Also, a bit more from Christian Voice. Stephen Green is now making comments about road tolls - and amazingly not one mention of God or Jesus. Wow.

http://www.christianvoice.org.uk/Alerts/alert001.html

But there is a link to the Alternative Queens Speech which basically says Green wants the UK to live by the word of God etc and be nicer to motorists(I wonder how many points he has on his licence?)

Ahhhh...

Way to go destroying any small sense of credibility he might once have had.

FB

Still not entirely convinced it isn't a "Chris Morris" style stunt.

jerry jerry jerry rocks

>>"Still not entirely convinced it isn't a "Chris Morris" style stunt."

The problem with high-grade religious obsessives is it's pretty impossible to tell - they are essentially self-parodying.

As an interesting aside over on the Archers boards, we came up with the idea of, just for one series, filling the Big Brother house with Creationists. I think it'd be unmissable television.

(Would we have to let them out?)

On the subject of the Christian Voice mouthpiece giving his views on the evils of the state as Big Brother w.r.t road pricing, I'm reminded of a recent parish newsletter.

Our local vicar (he of the knee-jerk homophobia, which, to his credit, he *did* eventually admit was as much down to his personal unconfortableness with the concept as with theology) was having a good old rant about speed cameras, and how he *really* didn't like the concept of being spied on all the time by some authority concerned about whether he was being good or not.
It's *possible* he was actually being clever and ironic, but I got the definite impression that any irony in his writing was entirely unintentional.

2nd time tonight.

According to the Radio 4 news just mow, The Co-Operative Bank have asked "Christian Voice" to close their bank account and take their business elsewhere, because their hard-line anti-homosexual stance is in direct opposition to the bank's "inclusive" aims.

"Christian Voice" are complaining that the bank are discriminating against them!

And here is Stephen Green's...sorry the Christian Voice's 'press' release about the matter.

http://www.christianvoice.org.uk/Press/press001.html

Ah, the irony of what he says. Bully boy tactics eh? Not something Green would use against, say, a cancer charity?

The co-op is "militanty pro-homosexual"?

Does he always refer to himself in the third person?


az

Delusions of grandeaur I think!

He really is a very strange man. Very perpexing too.

David

It does seem the CV thing may be rather a one-man-band, but given the kind of views the guy has, whether he wrote the article or not doesn't make much much difference to my views about his rationality, even if the article does feel quite creepy.

In any case, I suppose there is the media convention of writing about things with a level of abstraction to cover up the closeness of the source - eg.
"People are already calling this [nonexistent] scandal 'WhateverGate'", meaning that 'Me and my mate thought up the name over a beer last night".