Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick!

Common sense has prevailed and Newtownabbey Council have changed their mind on the Reduced Shakespeare Company performing their play - The Bible: The Complete Word of God (Abridged).

Some Unionist members of the Council objected saying that it mocked the Christian faith and that they had complaints about it and it was blashpemous and blocked the performance of the play. At one point they even tried to equate the performance to that of a live sex show, now that would've been a sold out performance.

Belfast Comedian Jake O'Kane said 'They call themselves moral guardians - they weren't elected to be moral guardians. We elected them to empty our bins, make sure the leisure centres were open - that's the powers they have'.

And there is part of the problem with Northern Iron, self appointed moral guardians, that seem to think they have more authority than  they actually do.

I respect the right of people to worship the gods of their choosing, or not to worship as the case may be, for myself I'm such a lapsed Catholic I've seen my Rabbi more than my Priest!

But as with everything there is always one shining beacon of hypocrisy, one numpty that outshines all other numpties, and this award goes to, surprise surprise, the DUP's Paul Girvan,  MLA for South Antrim.

Not as funy as Jake O'Kane, and not as big a riot as Nigel Dodds, Girvan had me laughing my ass off, in the BBC he said 'If a similar play was coming forward in relation to another religion I would be taking the same stance... if it was poking fun at those of a Muslim faith I wouldn't be too keen to bring that forward either.'

Is that right Paul? Now Paul as a member of the Catholic loving Orange Order might be familiar with these words ''I do declare that I am not, nor ever was, a Roman-Catholic or Papist'. And would your former party leader be the person who once verbally abused the Pope by calling him the anti christ and recently protested against against the visit of the last pope to Scotland.

So Paul you win ballroot of the week!

And p.s.

 For my friends in Newtownabbey!

And p.p.s. I don't remember Paisley ever protesting against Islam?