BBC 'touchy' for dropping Jesus lyric, says Dolittle

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BBC 'touchy' for dropping Jesus lyric, says Dolittle

The BBC asked Eliza Doolittle, the pop star, to drop a reference to Jesus when performing a song on the radio just days after the broadcaster was embroiled in a censorship row over Islam and homosexuality, it has been reported.
Doolittle, 25, was asked to re-word her love song Walking On Water for an appearance on the Radio 2 breakfast show, hosted by Chris Evans, because she refers to Jesus walking on water, according to the Mail on Sunday.

Last week the BBC’s Free Speech programme was criticised after it deliberately dropped a question about being Muslim and gay at the request of the mosque where it was being filmed.

Now corporation bosses are facing accusations they were oversensitive over Doolittle’s religious reference.
Her lyric refers to putting on a pair of trainers to run across the water to a yearned-for love.

The 25-year-old singer-songwriter told the Mail on Sunday: “'I had to change the lyrics from ‘Sometimes I wish I was Jesus, I'd get my Air Max on and run across the sea for you’ to ‘Sometimes I wish it was easy to get my Air Max on and run across the sea for you’.
“It was weird because I'm not being blasphemous, I just meant ‘I wish I could run across water and see you’, but maybe wishing for the power of God was blasphemous enough for them."

Evans said he was also baffled, given some of the songs he is allowed to play on his show. He told the newspaper: “Lyrics and the Beeb have always bamboozled me. We often play Lou Reed's Walk On The Wild Side. Check out the lyrics in that song.”
Doolittle added: "I think people are a bit touchy, but it's not a big deal."

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Sooky fucking religious morons...

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Knew Jim'd fix it.