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Freedom of speech has been bumping up against religious sensibilities in Britain, with results that cast an interesting light on current sensibilities.(The Week)(Brief Article)

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* Freedom of speech has been bumping up against religious sensibilities in Britain, with results that cast an interesting light on current sensibilities. At the end of last year a stage play featuring rape and murder in a Sikh temple caused a mob of enraged Sikhs to storm the provincial theater where the play was being performed. More recently the publicly financed BBC-TV stirred loud protests from Christians by announcing the broadcast of a West End musical titled Jerry Springer: The Opera. This work, described by its producers as "a satire on confessional TV," features a scene in ...

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