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He’s furious that Meryl Streep is being considered as the voice of Aslan from “The Chronicles of Narnia,” because it’s supposedly sacrilege for a woman to play a male talking lion.

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He had pleaded guilty to the 2024 arson attack which the church described as "an act of desecration and sacrilege".

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Sir Gavin branded name change a "woke moment" in what he called the "pathetic" Ministry of Defence, while Shapps decried the decision as "sacrilege" and evidence of "Labour's woke nonsense".

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A flamboyant clergyman with a flair for vaping, Tedesco promises to cease “the sacrilege of relativism, placing all faiths as equal.”

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But there has been fierce resistance along the way, particularly from some fellow surfers who think the whole idea of turning an intimate, almost zen-like communion with nature into a competition is sacrilege.

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