Editing Cliff Richard (section)

===Nationwide Festival of Light===

In 1971, Richard was a leading supporter of the [[Nationwide Festival of Light]], a movement formed by British Christians who were concerned about the development of the [[permissive society]]. Richard joined public figures such as [[Malcolm Muggeridge]], [[Mary Whitehouse]] and Bishop [[Trevor Huddleston]] to demonstrate in London "for love and family life, against pornography and moral pollution". Muggeridge criticised the media as being "largely in the hands of those who for one reason or another favour the present Gadarene slide into decadence and Godlessness".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VYNQAAAAIBAJ&pg=3661,2055143&dq=rallying+for+love+and+family+life&hl=en |title=Rallying for love and family life |newspaper=[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]] |date=12 July 1971 }}</ref>

One of the targets for the Festival of Light's campaign was the growth of sexually explicit films.<ref>{{cite book |last=Smith |first=Justin T. |title=British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure |date=2013 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q5LQzLFWzKUC&pg=PA140|isbn=9780748640782 }}</ref> Richard was one of approximately 30,000 people who gathered at London's [[Trafalgar Square]] for a demonstration. One focus of their protest was against the Swedish sex education film ''[[Language of Love]]'', which was showing at a nearby cinema.<ref>Daniel Ekeroth, ''Swedish Sensationsfilms: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker Cinema'', (Bazillion Points, 2011), p. 126, {{ISBN|978-0-9796163-6-5}}.</ref>