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McKellen is not just an [[atheist]] but a virulent opponent of Christianity who in 2009 boasted in a TV interview of ripping pages from Bibles he found in hotel rooms, because they condemned homosexuality. He boasted further of hanging these portions of scripture on a string in his toilet. <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zaR27xja6U </ref>
McKellen is not just an [[atheist]] but a virulent opponent of Christianity who in 2009 boasted in a TV interview of ripping pages from Bibles he found in hotel rooms, because they condemned homosexuality. He boasted further of hanging these portions of scripture on a string in his toilet. <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zaR27xja6U </ref>
In 2010 McKellen was publicly critical of UK anti-paedophile laws requiring actors to be checked by the police for previous offences before being allowed to work with children. He claimed the laws were unnecessary and denied there had ever been any problem with child sex abuse, although there had in fact been a recent case involving an actor named Rhys Young working in McKellen's own company the Little Theatre Guild. Young was sentenced to two years and four months in jail after admitting to sexual activity with a boy, dating back to 2006. <ref>
In 2010 McKellen was publicly critical of UK anti-paedophile laws requiring actors to be checked by the police for previous offences before being allowed to work with children. He claimed the laws were unnecessary and denied there had ever been any problem with child sex abuse, although there had in fact been a recent case involving an actor named Rhys Young working in McKellen's own company the Little Theatre Guild. Young was sentenced to two years and four months in jail after admitting to sexual activity with a boy, dating back to 2006. <ref>
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1249306/Sir-Ian-McKellen-Paedophile-vetting-laws-stop-theatres-using-child-actors.html</ref>
<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/7222904/Sir-Ian-McKellen-facing-embarrassment-over-former-theatre-guild-member-with-paedophile-conviction.html</ref>
<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/7222904/Sir-Ian-McKellen-facing-embarrassment-over-former-theatre-guild-member-with-paedophile-conviction.html</ref>
McKellen has freely made use of his celebrity status to promote his political agenda. In 2009, he visited Perry Beeches school in Birmingham to give moral support to Head teacher Liam Nolan who, in 2007, had been found guilty and fined £1000 and £1500 court costs for performing an indecent sexual act with an unemployed builder John Brown in a public park during school hours. <ref> http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/head-caught-sex-act-park-41594</ref>
McKellen has freely made use of his celebrity status to promote his political agenda. In 2009, he visited Perry Beeches school in Birmingham to give moral support to Head teacher Liam Nolan who, in 2007, had been found guilty and fined £1000 and £1500 court costs for performing an indecent sexual act with an unemployed builder John Brown in a public park during school hours. <ref> http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/head-caught-sex-act-park-41594</ref>
McKellen congratulated Nolan on his success in teaching children the Stonewall agenda and stamping out "homophobic bullying" although there was no evidence that any such bullying had ever taken place.
McKellen congratulated Nolan on his success in teaching children the Stonewall agenda and stamping out "homophobic bullying" although there was no evidence that any such bullying had ever taken place.