Inexpiably BBC Invites Stephen Green Who Calls For Gays To Be Murdered On-Air To Discuss The Birth Via Surrogate Of David Furnish And Sir Elton John’s Son

The BBC is under attack, rightly so, for a segment that aired Tuesday night on BBC One’s News at Six program that featured an interview with Stephen Green, of the violently anti-gay right-wing Christian Voice, who previously called for gays to be executed, to discuss the birth via surrogate of a baby boy for David Furnish and Sir Elton John, according to a report by Pink News. Introduced by Lizo Mzimba, the BBC’s entertainment correspondent, who said “not everyone is pleased to see such a high profile same sex couple start to raise a surrogate child,” Green, in an interview that is obviously edited, said that “This isn’t just a designer baby for Sir Elton John, this is a designer accessory ... Now it seems like money can buy him anything, and so he has entered into this peculiar arrangement ... The baby is a product of it. A baby needs a mother and it seems an act of pure selfishness to deprive a baby of a mother.” Pink News concludes “The decision to include an interview with Stephen Green, someone who has previously supported the execution of gays in a story relating to a high-profile gay couple celebrating the birth of a surrogate child shows incredible insensitivity by the BBC. His inclusion on a flagship bulletin is all the more shocking given that the same man unsuccessfully attempted to bring a private prosecution against the director general of the BBC on an a blasphemy issue that directly related to homosexuality. The interview broadcast with Mr Green was visibly edited and appears to have been used to deliver a sense of controversy over the birth of a surrogate son to a same sex couple that may not have been even considered newsworthy had the celebrity couple been heterosexual. Given that little more than a year ago, the BBC Trust ruled that the BBC “reinforced homophobic stereotypes”, the broadcast yesterday is all the more shocking. The BBC needs to seriously reconsider not just who it interviews for stories relating to homosexuality but also reconsider its whole approach to how it covers the lives of millions of LGBT people, who themselves have no choice but to pay the television license fee.”