Erin go bragh!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

http://blasphemy.ie/2010/01/01/atheist- ... us-quotes/

[Animavore]

I've already spoke of this on RDF.
I expect this law to be repelled by the end of this year.

[lofuji]

I had to do a double-check of the date. Quite ridiculous in modern Europe. Fuck religion.

[Bella Fortuna]

I've already spoke of this on RDF.
I expect this law to be repelled by the end of this year.

I'm already repelled.

[maiforpeace]

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A capacity problem I would imagine.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

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A capacity problem I would imagine.

It's intermittent. Give it a minute or so.

[Animavore]

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A capacity problem I would imagine.

It's intermittent. Give it a minute or so.

They must be using Eircom

[Gawdzilla Sama]

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A capacity problem I would imagine.

It's intermittent. Give it a minute or so.

They must be using Eircom

PeeZed just put it up on his blog, so it's probably blog bog.

[klr]

I've already spoke of this on RDF.
I expect this law to be repelled by the end of this year.

I'm already repelled.

[Animavore]

Dammit. I meant "repealed".

[JimC]

This in today's Age... this link

Ireland's atheists test blasphemy law
HENRY MCDONALD, DUBLIN
January 3, 2010
SECULAR campaigners in the Republic of Ireland defied a strict new blasphemy law that came into force on New Year's Day by publishing a series of anti-religious quotations online and promising to fight the legislation in court.

The law, which was passed in July, means blasphemy in Ireland is now a crime punishable with a fine of up to 25,000 euros.

It defines blasphemy as ''publishing or uttering matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters sacred by any religion, thereby intentionally causing outrage among a substantial number of adherents of that religion, with some defences permitted''.

Justice Minister Dermot Ahern has said the law was necessary because while immigration had brought a growing diversity of religious faiths, the 1936 constitution only extended the protection of belief to Christians.

But Atheist Ireland, a group that claims to represent the rights of atheists, responded to the legislation by publishing 25 anti-religious quotations on its website, from figures including Richard Dawkins, Bjork and Frank Zappa.

Michael Nugent, the group's chairman, said it would challenge the law through the courts if it was charged with blasphemy.

Mr Nugent said: ''This new law is both silly and dangerous. It is silly because medieval religious laws have no place in a modern secular republic, where the criminal law should protect people and not ideas. And it is dangerous because it incentives religious outrage, and because Islamic states led by Pakistan are already using the wording of this Irish law to promote new blasphemy laws at UN level.

''We believe in the golden rule: that we have a right to be treated justly, and that we have a responsibility to treat other people justly. Blasphemy laws are unjust: they silence people in order to protect ideas. In a civilised society, people have a right to express and to hear ideas about religion even if other people find those ideas to be outrageous.''

Mr Nugent said the group's campaign to repeal the law was part of a wider battle to create a more secular republic. ''You would think that after all the scandals the Catholic Church endured in 2009, the introduction of a blasphemy law would be the last thing that the Irish state would be considering in terms of defending religion and its place in society.''

[Xamonas Chegwé]

the best way to deal with this would be to wait until someone is prosecuted under this travesty of a law and then get as many people as possible to repeat the same statement as that person, including as many high-profile figures as possible.

Show this law up for the unworkable mockery that it is.