Band T-shirt draws charge IT is blasphemous, will get you arrested and has sparked debate about Australia's lack of a Bill of Rights.
A 16-year-old was arrested on Monday for wearing [a] shirt ...
Police conducted inquiries at Australia Fair, where the teen said he bought the shirt, to find any shops selling it...
The Reverend Matt Hunt of the Helensvale Baptist Church said it was sad people spoke about the Lord in such a way... Mr Hunt said using the Lord's name in vain was a serious sin...""It's fairly common language these days to express sadness, anger or hurt," he said. "It's a degrading word to use and Jesus is anything but that. It's like calling white black." When someone comes to the point of saying Jesus is the devil or Jesus is 'expletive', the Bible does say be very careful because you're on thin ice."
Not surprisingly, this is not the first time the shirt has had a run-in with the law...
In an interview with Kerrang! magazine, Cradle of Filth frontman Dani Filth bizarrely suggested God was working through the band.
"Defaming organised religion openly in public is now a crime? What is wrong with England? Still, the litter problem on our city streets should improve dramatically if they keep handing out 80-odd hour community punishment orders willy-nilly," he said.
"The country will be spotless in no time, a sure sign that God works in mysterious ways, even through us!"
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