{"id":1968,"date":"2009-01-16T00:34:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T04:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2009-01-16T00:34:19","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T04:34:19","slug":"the-cross-and-coronation-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-cross-and-coronation-street\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cross and Coronation Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rev James Milnes is a Church of England vicar who should be made Archbishop of Canterbury: the Coronation St. film crew concealed the church’s cross, so he is using the money they paid for the filming to buy a bigger one. He knows that the church without the cross is not a church and he isn’t afraid to say it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Coronation Street producers removed cross from church wedding scene<\/strong>\"Add
\nThe Rev James Milnes said they obscured the cross because of “political correctness”, thereby emptying the church “of the very thing that makes it a church”.<\/p>\n

Condemning the decision as “a disgrace”, he has vowed to spend the \u00a34,600 that St Mary’s Church in Nether Alderley, Cheshire, received from Granada TV on a bigger silver cross for the alter.<\/p>\n

Viewers never got to see the existing brass symbol, during the wedding scene of characters Tyrone Dobbs and Molly Compton.<\/p>\n

Instead it was tucked away behind a candelabra and artificial flowers.<\/p>\n

Those watching were, however, treated to the essential spectacle of dry ice drifting across the floor.<\/p>\n

Writing in his parish magazine, Mr Milnes, 29, said: “How can people think it offensive to see a cross in a church, in the same way as you would normally see the Koran in a mosque or the Torah in a synagogue? That is the emblem of this faith.”<\/p>\n

He went on: “This has a resonance around the country. It plays into who we are as a nation because I do not think we have a clear idea as English people. We do not really know where we are going.<\/p>\n

“There is constant attrition to our way of life. You can’t say this or you can’t say that for fear of offending. Who can we possibly be offending?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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