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Unrepentant vicar defends ‘blasphemous’ bumper sticker

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By John Glenday, Reporter

August 9, 2013 | 1 min read

A female vicar has defended pasting an obscene bumper sticker on her car after parishioners went up in arms over the accessory.

The sticky situation arose when Rev Alice Goodman affixed a ‘wtfwjd’ note to the back of her red Subaru Legacy, an abbreviation of ‘What the f@ck would Jesus do?’

A play on a Christian motto it didn’t go down well with some but Goodman was unrepentant, saying: ““F--- is not a blasphemy, it’s a vulgarity, an Old English word.

“Whoever saw this on my car perhaps did not notice that there are two other stickers on there, one either side of it.

“One is a Hebrew text about the transformation of the world, and the other from the sixth chapter of Micah, which says, ‘Do justice, love kindness, walk humbly with God’.

“My bishop knows I have the sticker on my car, and has no difficulty with it, and I’ve had the former Archbishop of Canterbury in my car, Rowan Williams, and he didn’t raise an eyebrow.”

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