It’s a very naughty town

A mayor’s plan to end her town’s ban on the 1979 Monty Python film Life of Brian are being opposed by the local vicar, who says it pokes fun at Jesus.

Sue Jones-Davies, who played Brian’s girlfriend in the movie, was amazed when she became mayor of Aberystwyth that it was still barred at the cinema.

But Reverend Canon Stuart Bell said Christians he spoke to in Ceredigion were still against it being shown.

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It’s amazing to me that a university town filled with clubs, booze shops and rowdy students (man, I miss uni) can ban a Monty Python film, yet show all kinds of films at the Arts Centre on campus. How is Life of Brian any worse than your average Quentin Tarantino bloodbath? Or some smutty arty film?

Whatever happened to freedom of speech? If you don’t like the message, then don’t see the film.