Popetown prosecutions
Media Watch Watch is reporting that the Catholic Church in Lithuania is planning to sue MTV Lietuva for transmitting Popetown.
According to Sigitas Tamkevicius of the Lithuanian Bishops’ Conference: “The Popetown series is not only an insult to the pope, but to all the Catholics of Lithuania.” he also claimed that the rights of the faithful were “violated”, but didn’t specify which rights these are.
Ema Segal, a spokeswoman for MTV Lietuva, said: “This is just an artistic satire and nothing more. We neither attempted to mock the religion, nor God himself.” Not that there is anything wrong with mocking either religion or god - in fact, we could do with more of it.
Wednesday 10 Jan 2007 | Paul | Lithuania
