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We are not the largest website around, but we believe we play an important role in defending truth and objectivity. Mary Whitehouse not to be confused with Amy Winehouse was a nutjob Christian who campaigned for censorship in the media of everything in that she claimed was immoral. Among her more jawdropping achievements were causing the last prosecution for blasphemy in the UK , against Gay News , for publishing a poem which featured a Roman centurion having sex with Jesus at the point of crucifixion.
President, the White House, after Ladd told Waters he interpreted the last verse as an attack on Gerald Ford , who was US president at the time the song was recorded.
She was also referred to in the homoerotic film Sebastiane. In one scene, a group of Roman soldiers are holding a beetle-battle, forcing beetles to fight one another in a dirt ring, and naming them after famous women of the time, and implying they were embracing lesbians. But one beetle not named after a woman of the time was called "Maria Domus Alba", which is a literal Latin translation for "Mary White House". In Latin. In , she launched a private prosecution against the director of a London play, The Romans In Britain , for depicting homosexual rape, which you could say is fair enough.
The case collapsed when a defending lawyer extracted an admission from the principal witness, who had attended the play for the sole purpose of being offended, that he'd been sitting so far back that he couldn't have seen what he said had offended him. Quentin Crisp said she was quite attractive.
In considering this, it should be kept in mind that Crisp was most famous for being camp as a flamingo sipping a Cosmopolitan in Mayfair. One of her most frequent attacks was on violence in the media, especially Doctor Who [9] if you watch the show, you will know that one of its most frequent messages is that violence is bad , forgetting that violence on television isn't real.
Much better leave your children in the capable hands of Mr Jimmy Savile, who won the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association award for wholesome family entertainment in The Mary Whitehouse Experience was quite good. As a teenager Hannah Kent travelled to Iceland on an exchange trip and it was there that she first heard the tale of Agnes Magnusdottir and her execution.
The story struck a chord with the young Hannah and she set about extensively researching what really happened to Agnes. By compiling the information she found and filling in the gaps Burial Rites was born. The year is and Agnes has been charged with the murder of her lover. Set against the backdrop of a remote farm in stark northern Iceland she awaits her execution. Feeling deeply uncomfortable having a convicted murderer living among them, district officer Jon Jonsson, his wife and their two daughters go out of their way to avoid Agnes.