| # | Name | Comments |
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| 351 | Dr Paul Sanders | |
| 352 | J Carroll | |
| 353 | Deanna Nicholson | Pandering to religious sensibilities is a short cut to a closed society scared of shadows. The dark ages are over and we do not need a rerun. |
| 354 | Roy Pomfret | |
| 355 | j willatts | |
| 356 | Paul Gillard | |
| 357 | Anonymous | Free speech means the freedom to offend. I'm sure there are bits of the Bible that many non-Christians find offensive, yet they're not calling for it to be banned. |
| 358 | Chris Newell | It's unacceptable for a few noisy zealots to prevent publications of any kind. The South Wales Echo should be proud to maintain its independence and integrity. |
| 359 | Peter Tomlinson | I am constantly irritated by the way the media so often backs down in this way in the face of outrageous and irrational protests from religious groups. |
| 360 | Chris Hall | As a journalist for most of my life, I deplore the pusillanimity of the South Wales Echo. |
| 361 | Mr. Glenn Morris | |
| 362 | Alan Burton | |
| 363 | g walters | |
| 364 | Ian Smith | This is an example of religious bigots stifling free speech - please don't give them any support! |
| 365 | Anonymous | |
| 366 | Ian Rummery | It was a great article shame on you lot for being so gutless |
| 367 | Tim Boyce | Free, open, confidant, unself-censoring media is essential in the battle to prevent these Islands being sucked into a new dark age of religious hegemony. I hope the SW Echo will retract its apology. |
| 368 | Peter Scott | The Echo should do the right thing and withdraw the apology. Show us you have morals. Do not give in to the unprincipled people at Christian Voice. |
| 369 | Anonymous | Freedom of speech MUST be paramount over any other consideration. The integrity of journalists and publishers should demand this. |
| 370 | Clive Thomas | No one has the right NOT to be offended. If christians want to believe in a sky fairy, they have that right, but they cannot expect non-believers to respect their ideas or tolerate their bigotry. |
| 371 | David Stanway | |
| 372 | Philip Drew | Don't submit to religious bully boys! |
| 373 | simon gardener | I am horrified and saddened by your abandonment of the principles of free speech to appease a few superstitious people. In a free society there should be no right to not be offended by an opposing point of view. Rolling over like this simply encourages the religious to keep demanding we behave and think in a way they approve. shame on you. |
| 374 | Stewart Clark | |
| 375 | Shane Collins | |
| 376 | Anonymous | The press should always support free speech where it is accurate, and support it's journalists. |
| 377 | John Teal | |
| 378 | Bob Churchill | |
| 379 | Oscar Bach | |
| 380 | Phil Sanders | |
| 381 | Samantha Jenkins | |
| 382 | Gemma Brunswick | |
| 383 | Kevin O'Brien | The priciple of freedom of speech, expression and publication must be upheld and assaults from religious bigots must be resisted. |
| 384 | Christopher Norfolk | |
| 385 | Jon Edens | |
| 386 | Frances Versluys | FREEDOM OF SPEECH - NO APOLOGIES NEEDED |
| 387 | R Murphy | |
| 388 | Norman Green | I don't like bullies whatever they claim to believe. This is particularly true when they seek to marginalise and persecute minority groups. Hooray for freethinkers such as Richard Dawkins. |
| 389 | PDarby | |
| 390 | Mala Lewis | |
| 391 | Steve Denton | |
| 392 | Dave Box | |
| 393 | Aman SYED | I fully agree with the petition |
| 394 | Ivan Bailey | |
| 395 | Claudia Gilbert | I've read the article and while I don't agree with everything the author said (the slight implication that Jesus spending time with children made him gay left a bad taste in my mouth) I don't feel there was anything written apology worthy. Freedom of speech is extremely important, but it will be lost if everyone starts to kowtow to those that feel offended. Being offended isn't a crime, but shutting someone up because you don't like/agree with their viewpoint is. |
| 396 | Stuart Weightman | Stephen Green spends every month attempting to whip up self-promotional outrage over some trifling matter while contradicting his own past rants about freedom and liberty again and again.
Why was an apology owed over a satirical little opinion piece about fundamentalist paranoia? |
| 397 | Stuart Weightman | Stephen Green spends every month attempting to whip up self-promotional outrage over some trifling matter while contradicting his own past rants about freedom and liberty again and again.
Why was an apology owed over a satirical little opinion piece about fundamentalist paranoia? |
| 398 | Anonymous | Ludicrous! You can not pander to the censorship parade on this issue! Retract the apology and if they dont like it, they can not read it, or refuse to buy the paper, i dont think the Echo would even notice any difference in their sales as it's such a tiny minority. The ignorant fools! |
| 399 | Pete Moss | |
| 400 | Anthony Doyle | No newspaper should apologise for posing a reasonable question. |