Faith 'n' Begorrah!
9:40 AM Nobody expects the Irish Inquisition!
July 22, 2009
9:40 AM -- Planning a trip to The Emerald Isle? Mind your bloody tongue. CBC News reports:
If you visit Ireland after October, you'd better watch what you say about God.
A blasphemous slip of the tongue could cost you 25,000 euros under revamped legislation that will soon be signed into law...
Lorraine Weinrib, a law professor at the University of Toronto, says the bill is a modern update of blasphemy laws...
"Unlike the old blasphemy laws which only protected the dominant religion [Roman Catholicism]… this one seems to protect all religions, so it kind of has a modern equality bent to it," Weinrib adds.
Ah yes, very modern. Equal opportunity theocracy.
— Larry, Attack Monkey, Light Reading
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