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Councillors condemn anti-gay BBC 'Question Time'

08 September 2008 20:52
City's gay councillors condemn anti-gay Question Time

Brighton and Hove's two gay city councillors have today united and issued a joint statement condemning BBC1's Question Time programme for allowing a homophobic religious leader' Stephen Green' to appear on tonight's programme' broadcast live from Brighton. Stephen Green' National Director of Christian Voice' is well-known for his hostility to the LGBT community (1).

Councillors Paul Elgood (Liberal Democrat) and Simon Williams (Green Party)
said: "We utterly condemn the BBC for inviting this man to broadcast his bigoted views on prime time TV in the city of Brighton and Hove. While we recognise the importance of different views on a political debate programme' we believe Stephen Green's views go way beyond acceptable boundaries of debate.

"We also think it is extremely insensitive of the BBC and the production company to invite Mr Green to Brighton. Our city has one of the largest lesbian' gay' bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities in the UK.

"At present LGBT people are not protected from incitement to hatred in the way that ethnic minorities are; if they were' Mr Green's views would not be allowed to be broadcast. If he appears this evening we will make a formal complaint to the BBC."