An Australian television channel is being taken to court for allowing ”Jesus Christ!” to be used as an oath in a British crime series it broadcasts, news reports said on Thursday.
Pensioner Andre van der Linden has lodged his complaint against Channel Seven with the Civil and Administrative Tribunal claiming a breach of racial and religious vilification laws.
He said he wanted to do something to ensure Christians were afforded the same respect in the media as Muslims and Aborigines.
”We don’t like to see people vilified in this country,” Van der Linden told Australia’s ABC Radio. ”Muslim people are never vilified in terms of media.”
He wants television networks to bleep out the oath.
”Christians are fair cop for all type of vilification, but when it touches the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, as we refer to him, then it is absolutely unacceptable.”
Channel Seven intends to defend the action at a hearing in two weeks. – Sapa-DPA