IRISH TIMES
IRELAND---A play in Northern Ireland
has been cancelled after Christians claimed it was blasphemous.
The Bible: The Complete Word of God (Abridged) was due to be staged in the Theatre at the Mill in Newtownabbey on the northern outskirts of Belfast later this month. In a move dismaying freedom-of-expression campaigners, a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) led council decided to call it off amid strong opposition from religious conservatives. Ulster Unionist mayor of Newtownabbey Borough Council Fraser Agnew said: “As the guardians of all that is right in society, we have got to take a stand somewhere - and that is what happened in this instance.” [
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