British atheist has proslytizing Christian removed from cell

[Ladewig]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2791077/Rapists-whine-at-sharing-cell-with-Christian.html

AN atheist rapist has complained that his human rights were breached by having to share a prison cell with a Christian lag.

[snip]

A source said Relf was "furious" at having to share at Manchester Prison with the Christian convict and wanted him to be "evicted".

[snip]

The other inmate was later transferred.

This story provides an interesting definition of "human rights."

[Sir Robin Goodfellow]

Political correctness gone mad?

[Giz]

What kind of a Christian would commit crimes anyway?

(I am always bemused at stories of christian/muslim/whatever convicts who have oh so precious beliefs that must be listened to... if they were really that sincere in their beliefs then I doubt they would have committed crime in the first place)

[quadraginta]

Political correctness gone mad?


Geez. The guy is only a self-confessed multiple rapist. There is such a thing as cruel and unusual punishment.

I think it's a tough call. Maybe they should just put him in solitary with a 24/7 Barry Manilow feed.

[Ladewig]

Political correctness gone mad?

I don't understand why you are defining it as political correctness

[Eddie Dane]

Geez. The guy is only a self-confessed multiple rapist. There is such a thing as cruel and unusual punishment.

I think it's a tough call. Maybe they should just put him in solitary with a 24/7 Barry Manilow feed.

I hear Christian rock music is really good these days.

[Damien Evans]

I hear Christian rock music is really good these days.

Dude. Harsh.

[funk de fino]

I think the guy had every right to complain based on this snippet.

He said: "He moaned about how the guy wouldn't shut up about God. He said he wanted to speak to a lawyer about his rights so he could be moved cells."

It would have been a better story if he had just raped him.

:rolleyes:

[Ian Osborne]

Remember, it only says the other inmate was transferred - not that he was removed as a result of the rapist's complaints. My guess (and it is only a guess) was that the prison authorities removed him to stop the situation ending in violence.

[Undesired Walrus]

It's The Sun. Take the story with a river of salt.

[TragicMonkey]

What kind of a Christian would commit crimes anyway?

(I am always bemused at stories of christian/muslim/whatever convicts who have oh so precious beliefs that must be listened to... if they were really that sincere in their beliefs then I doubt they would have committed crime in the first place)

If I ever wind up in prison, I'll totally become a devout evangelical Christian. You get out earlier, thanks to all these lovely (and sometimes state-funded) religious programs to rehabilitate people. In the US, anyway, if you insist you're innocent you don't get parole. If you confess your crimes as being sins and blather on about accepting Jesus, you'll get out early. Possibly because you bore the parole board to tears, but mostly because too many people here believe you must be a good person if you profess belief in the same mythology they do. "I didn't do it" = being an unrepentant jerk who stays in prison. "I surely did those things, and I am sorry for them because Jesus weeps at my sinning, but now I am rejoicing in my shame for I am blest by the glory of the Lord who--what? Okay, thanks, I've already packed. Bless you all in the name of--okay, later."

[Aitch]

Manchester Prison (it used to be called Strangeways - make of that what you will!) actually has quite a few remand prisoners; possibly the fundie was such, and therefore only there temporarily.

[sophia8]

It's only the Sun, using any old excuse to have a go at "political correctedness" and human rights legislation. It's what they do.
The rapist merely wrote in a prison magazine about his irritation at sharing with a God-botherer - all the rest is from some anonymous "source".
A source said Relf was "furious" at having to share at Manchester Prison with the Christian convict and wanted him to be "evicted".
He said: "He moaned about how the guy wouldn't shut up about God. He said he wanted to speak to a lawyer about his rights so he could be moved cells."

Yeah, and I'm betting that the "source" was sitting inside the Sun office.

[Sir Robin Goodfellow]

I don't understand why you are defining it as political correctness


I don't. It was a joke based on the comments you see with every story like this. Just Google "political correctness gone mad" .

[Darth Rotor]

It would have been a better story if he had just raped him.

:rolleyes:
Snort.

[Damien Evans]

I think the guy had every right to complain based on this snippet.



It would have been a better story if he had just raped him.

:rolleyes:

Careful, you might give the Daily Fail ideas.

[funk de fino]

Flip the story to a prisoner sharing with an islamic fundie who is refused a move.

Imagine The Sun take on that one!!

[Beerina]

Some atheist. He should have taken it as a challenge to convert the Christian the other way.

Or maybe a 20-foot wide asteroid should just have landed on the cell.

[Vorticity]

Wait, so how do we know this guy is actually an atheist, again?

'Cause The Sun says so? :rolleyes:

[fuelair]

Remember, it only says the other inmate was transferred - not that he was removed as a result of the rapist's complaints. My guess (and it is only a guess) was that the prison authorities removed him to stop the situation ending in violence.

Why?:D

[Shrike]

He said: "He moaned about how the guy wouldn't shut up about God. He said he wanted to speak to a lawyer about his rights so he could be moved cells."
:D
I bet he did.