New crime of blasphemous libel proposed for Defamation Bill - goodbye free speech ?

[femmefatale]

Oh, here.

Goodnight.

Stand your ground, aggressive! You won't get your 26/32-county Irish Secular Republic by running away from debate!

[Alterego]

Shame on Harney for supporting this on Q+A.

Well done Mary, well done

[femmefatale]

Pretty much just blue laws like blasphemy. I don't see the need for atheist input from anything else and we'll generally be represented fairly if there are religious secularists instead.

[SIZE="5"]Blue[/SIZE] laws??? You won't win round the aul catholic moralists with that kind of language!!

Ok, I've looked it up. I had genuinely never heard of the term "blue laws". You atheists know us Jesus-freaks better than we know ourselves!!

[myksav]

Well done Mary, well done

Ya know, you give Muslims a bad name.

[Cato]

Well plenty of Catholics (including the priests at my Christian Brothers' school at the time) found Father Ted, for example, funny, and I would be quite surprised if all the writers and actors were not Catholic.

I was in Maynooth, as a seminarian, when Dermot Morgan passed away. His death was announced at breakfast in the Refectorium. It was greeted by a large number of those present with cheers and muttering about God's judgement.

Most of those who cheered ended up ordained. Most of those who didn't cheer were not.

It was one of the most eye-opening experiences of my life. Sad really.

[femmefatale]

Shame on Harney for supporting this on Q+A.

CANNOT STAND THAT WOMAN (Jesus understands)

[myksav]

[SIZE="5"]Blue[/SIZE] laws??? You won't win round the aul catholic moralists with that kind of language!!

Ok, I've looked it up. I had genuinely never heard of the term "blue laws". You atheists know us Jesus-freaks better than we know ourselves!!

Hey, blue laws are fun. Like the one in Boston, USA, where it is required for a man to carry a musket with him to church on a Sunday.

[Alterego]

Ya know, you give Muslims a bad name.

Do I? Not the kind of Muslim you like, am I? Let me guess, you like me to be a beer swilling, pig eating fornicator

[femmefatale]

Hey, blue laws are fun. Like the one in Boston, USA, where it is required for a man to carry a musket with him to church on a Sunday.

It's a US import? Very bad news methinks!!!

[Cato]

Do you think somebody living in Gaza would see Israeli criticism of Islam as legitimate?

If the criticism is warranted and true, then it is legitimate. Insensitive or politically questionable maybe. But if it is true than it's true regardless of the source.

Femmefatale; who was it who said "The truth will set you free"?