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Assimilation Watch
Watching on as The Christian Institute morphs into the Daily Mail.
Today’s outrage- Christians are ‘evil’ for backing marriage, says Tesco R&D boss
Christians are “evil” if they resist the redefinition of marriage to allow for same-sex marriage, the Head of Research and Development at Tesco.com has said.
The inflammatory comment came as news emerged that the supermarket giant is selling a drink degradingly called “P***y Natural Energy”, in a limited edition can exclusive to Tesco.
Crumbs, Tesco are really behaving badly. What were they drinking at the Christmas party? (Aside from p***y drink, obviously.)
The “evil Christians” comment was made by Nick Lansley, Head of Research and Development for the Tesco website.
This is really confusing. Was the comment made by the Head of R&D for the Tesco website or by the head of R&D on the Tesco Website? Turns out (in paragraph six) that it’s a comment tucked into a profile on a social networking site. Not particularly clever, but hardly company policy. It was just a comment made on a personal site expressing a point of view.
Which is exactly what CI were defending when a “Christian housing manager from Manchester was demoted for expressing personal opinions about gay marriage” on a social networking site.
Either a person is allowed space in the modern age to express private views on a personal site or they’re not, you can’t really argue cogently for both positions.
So, to recap, someone wrote something stupid on the internet. If CI is going to blow the dog whistle every time someone does that they’ll get asthma.
Right, what about this drink?
According to the Tesco website, the offensively named drink “is a 100% natural light and refreshing Lychee & Grenadilla flavoured energy drink that contains no taurine, preservatives or synthetic caffeine.”
Lets leave the mixing of two stories to one side and deal with this fizzy drink that may or may not have an offensive word. Hmmm, five letter word beginning with P and ending with Y. What could it be? The mind boggles. Thankfully CI has a link to the Tesco website.
So let’s click…
Crumbs. I’m reluctant to spell out the word on my blog but here goes.
The drink is called… P***y.
No. Really, It is literally P***y. It’s not exactly French Connection is it?
UPDATE Some googling reveals that Tesco is stocking the drink with the offensive word starred out. You can see it here if you need to. They starred it out! If anything the starring out is commendable isn’t it? Well, maybe not, but then why aren’t CI also criticising Virgin who stock the drink on their trains? Maybe they’re not a ‘family’ rail company.
Director of The Christian Institute, Colin Hart, said: “I won’t be shopping at Tesco this Christmas, and I am repeatedly hearing from other Christians who have already come to the same conclusion… “The decision by Tesco to sell an offensively named drink shows very poor judgment, even if 5p from every can goes to Cancer Research. Come on, Tesco, you are meant to be a family-friendly store. Start acting like it.”
Really? Did he really say “Come on Tesco?” like they were in a room with him?
Come on The Christian Institute. You’re meant to be a serious organisation, lobbying on behalf of christians. Start acting like it.
Dog whistle word counter: 3. (Supermarket, family and offensive)
Storm in a teacup rating: 4/5
