MORE bad news for the Catholic Church in Ireland, which has suffered a number of setbacks in this increasingly sceptical country: the offence of blasphemy is likely to be dropped from the Irish Constitution.
According to the Irish Independent, the joint committee on the Constitution said last Friday that changes to the Constitution in the areas [...]
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THE zany story that broke this week about the hijacking in Florida of a Jesus cracker – or Corpus Crispie – and the fear of Catholics that it might be “abused” by its kidnapper – got us wondering what indignities Freethinker readers might heap on a blessed Eucharist, should they ever decide to take one [...]
THE British Board of Film Censors – no longer hamstrung by “blasphemy” concerns now that this “crime” has been abolished in the UK – has approved, without cuts, a pornographic film called Passio. It has been given an R18 rating.
Featuring Danny Fox as a homosexual Jesus, Passio – full title: Passio: Domini Nostri Secundum Matthaeum [...]
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Stephen “Birdshit” Green thought he was doing God’s work when he tried unsuccessfully to prosecute the BBC for blasphemy after it screened Jerry Springer: The Opera.
But his God evidently thought otherwise, for Green now faces bankruptcy over legal fees incurred as a result of his vindictive action.
Green’s website reveals that he has been saddled with [...]
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LIGHTNING failed to strike Terry Sanderson when he said rude things about Jehovah, rubbished his bastard son Jesus, and maligned the mad paedophile “prophet” Mohammed.
Sir Ian McKellen, who “survived an evangelical upbringing” did not turn to dust when he confessed to vandalising Bibles in hotel bedrooms by tearing out the pages of Leviticus.
And comedian Robin [...]
THE National Secular Society and freethinkers throughout the land are celebrating the fact that Parliament last night had passed an amendment abolishing the blasphemy law.
Terry Sanderson, President of the NSS said:
This is the culmination of the Society’s 140-year fight to abolish this medieval law under which many innocent victims have suffered. Even in the 20th [...]
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