I recently watched a documentary by Stewart Lee, about religious censorship on non religious people. His ig example was his own musical, "Jerry Springer: The Musical" Which featured heavy "blasphemy".
The Christians of the United Kingdom didn't take kindly to people having their say because it offended their belief, so they protested almost every show that as put on, and even managed to get it pulled off of the BBC when they wanted to air it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9EUe8jNr6o
"Religious protesters and lobbiests try to dictate what we can, and cannot say and do."
The main point of the programme, which I highly recommend, is that this large group of people who are getting offended are trying to stifle free speech, while still wanting to be able to speak about what they want. It seems more and more that secularists ain't allowed to speak their mind in case of offending people, while we have to let them put up posters, build giant churches, and be in our faces about it just because.
A good example of this was a group of secularists students who wanted to make a secular club so that they could feel included, and get together to talk about things. But they were denied, while there where many religious clubs currently in session.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVWItI2OjxQ&list=TLP_QQAksMxfXuOA6y9mSYtgwsEvgZjFtw
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