"WATCH your gutter language you, you're not at home now!" Such was my response when a lecturer in building years ago, to a teenager attempting to shock me.

I could almost have guaranteed his reaction: "I don't swear at home Sir."

"And you don't swear here, you revolting individual," followed from me!

The decison by the Director-General of the BBC, Mark Thompson, to screen Jerry Springer- The Opera, had all the hallmarks of a collection of middle-aged adolescents out to shock. I hope he is now hanging his head in shame.

Lord Reith, who established the BBC with high standards of moral integrity, must be literally 'turning in his grave.'

If people wish to wallow in a cesspool of moral depravity, then they can visit a theatre and ogle the kind of actors prepared to participate in such shows. The BBC, however, is a public broadcasting organisation, with responsibilities. Not least among these, to the 80 per cent of children who have televisions in their bedrooms; many modern parents sadly, being either unable or unwilling these days and age, to exercise discipline over their children.

Happily, organised Christianity appears to be waking-up to the orchestrated campaign of secular-humanists, who aim to undermine the nation's Judaeo/Christian heritage.

County Councillor Tom Wareing

Redditch