A 'wretched, backward, uncivilized regression to the Middle Ages'

[pokerfan]

No one expects the Irish Inquisition...

http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/Ireland+blasphemy+labeled+return+Middle+Ages/1922182/story.html">Ireland's new blasphemy law

Police with a search warrant will be able to enter private premises and use "reasonable force" to obtain incriminating evidence.

"It is a wretched, backward, uncivilized regression to the Middle Ages," said prominent atheist author Richard Dawkins in a statement last month, arguing that the law risks shattering Ireland's new image as a "modern, civilized . . . green and pleasant silicon valley."

[Ken Burch]

1. How will the Irish survive without being able to say "Bejaysus"?

n/t.

[Kerrytravelers]

2. What a stupid waste of money and time.

If one's faith is so utterly shook from its core because someone holds a different opinion, then I have to doubt the strength of one's core beliefs to begin with.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. And here I was thinking it was another thread about islam and the sharia

[Tanuki]

4. I thought it was going to be about the Fox network! ;> n/t

[ProgressiveProfessor]

5. I could see that too .n/t

[paulsby]

6. laws against "denigrating " religion are illegal in more than just ireland. try france

for instance. they have a law against denigrating religion.

the US has vastly superior free speech laws to most countries in regards to this kind of stuff. no hate speech laws whatsoever.