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Related: About this forumIrish referendum on blasphemy expected to be held in October (plus "woman in the home")
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It would likely take place at the same time as a referendum on changing a constitutional clause that prioritises a womans domestic role over work. The votes on the two topics and may coincide with a presidential election, if one takes place.
Voters will be asked whether Article 40.6.1 (i) should be retained in the Constitution. Blasphemy is defined as matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that religion.
The Defamation Act 2009 made blasphemy a crime punishable by a 25,000 fine. As far back as 1991, the Law Reform Commission recommended that the offence of blasphemy be removed from the Constitution. The law came to prominence last year when a Garda inquiry began after a complaint was made over British actor and comedian Stephen Fry making critical comments about God during an interview on RTÉ. No prosecution was brought in the case.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/referendum-on-blasphemy-expected-to-be-held-in-october-1.3528286
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/03/irish-feminists-target-women-in-the-home-clause-in-constitution
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)Iggo
(47,563 posts)It's a beautiful thing.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)They've held sway in Ireland for so long, they were its de facto government. So many crimes that they covered up - they did it to themselves.
msongs
(67,433 posts)AZ8theist
(5,487 posts)These so-called "laws" exist to protect idiots who are deathly afraid of their "beliefs" being questioned.
In the middle east, including Saudi Arabia (one of our "allies" citizens can get their heads chopped off for so-called "blasphemy".
Multiple states around the world have similar statutes.
ALL ARE IDIOTIC.
For one reason, and one reason only: If your religion was even REMOTELY TRUE (pick sub subject) You wouldn't need to kill people defending it. You could sit back, scoff at the unbelievers and continue on your merry way.
However, the architects of "anti-blasphemy" laws can't fucking stand it when someone questions their "belief" system. Therefore, they have to create laws to punish the "blasphemers". SICK, SICK, SICK religionists corrupting the greater good of mankind. Its' perverse.
The fact that these idiotic laws still exist in a supposedly advanced western state such as Ireland, make it all the more repugnant.
MineralMan
(146,324 posts)dying religions.
Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)Voltaire2
(13,109 posts)the will of the people. That is not what they are paid for.