Monday, September 15, 2008

DISCRIMINATION: Can’t be seen promoting Jesus!

In a nation which just institutionalized Sharia law it's surprising to hear the nation's public broadcasting authority is concerned about the boundaries of religious propriety.
A successful Christian children’s author says he was refused appearances on the BBC because it couldn’t be “seen to be promoting Jesus”.

G P Taylor’s first novel, Shadowmancer, spent 15 weeks at the top of the British book charts in 2003. His second book, Wormwood, sold 22,000 copies in one day.

Yet the author claims that invitations for appearances on the BBC stopped once producers found out he was a Christian.

“I had good relations with them until they realised that there were religious allegories in my stories,” he told The Sunday Telegraph.
As in most disputes, a debate continues as to the truth of Taylor's allegations.
Taylor ... says that he has been the victim of political correctness that favours minority religions at the expense of Christianity, a claim the BBC denies. [...]

[The author] who gave up life as a parish priest after signing a £3.5 million publishing deal with Faber in 2004, believes the BBC began to shun him after he was described as the new C S Lewis – the Christian author who wrote The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

thanks for your support. Many people are emailing bluepeter@bbc.co.uk and gms@bbc.co.uk to tell them how they feel.