No Blasphemy Law in Ireland
Group opposed to the growing suppression of religious criticism in Ireland
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No Blasphemy Law in Ireland

No Blasphemy Law in Ireland This may not be for everyone, but it is an excellent website that provides the necessary documentation and information required for changing your official religious status. Unfortunately, freedom of choice is a rare commodity in Ireland and it is difficult to officially to register your religious position. Maybe if more people could register their position dranconican bills like this wouldn't be proposed.

Source: www.countmeout.ie
Count Me Out is a source of information for those considering leaving the Roman Catholic Church. It offers a simple three-step process which generates all the forms necessary in order to formally defect.
No Blasphemy Law in Ireland

No Blasphemy Law in Ireland Was asked to post this link. Note: Not directly associated with this group but check it out anyway.

Church that worships Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern and his proposed new blasphemy law See details at http://blasphemy.ie On Wednesday 20 May 2009, speaking at a parliamentary Justice Committee...
Cathal Mullally
Cathal Mullally
the reality of this is pretty simple. the government would have to hold a referendum to change the law and know they would have their arsess hand'd to them again so to protect institutions that have aided and abetted in the murder and abuse of children from verbal abuse they doctor the law to suit them. shame on our president for passing it into law.
July 24 at 6:04am
No Blasphemy Law in Ireland

No Blasphemy Law in Ireland This is exactly why religion needs to be ridiculed and why this law defends not the sane believer but the nonsense merchants of this counrty.

Source: www.irishtimes.com
NEARLY 2,000 people have signed a petition seeking to prevent the removal of a tree stump on the grounds of a Co Limerick church, which they believe depicts an image of the Blessed Virgin.
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MINISTER FOR Justice Dermot Ahern is to cut proposed fines for blasphemy from €100,000 to €25,000, under changes to be made to the Defamation Act next week.
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No Blasphemy Law in Ireland An outside view of the bill and its challenges.

Source: www.euractiv.com
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland will change a law that provides prison sentences for the crime of "blasphemous libel" but cannot abolish it altogether without a referendum to change the constitution, the justice minister said on Friday.
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Source: www.irishtimes.com
WE ARE awful eejits really. How could anyone possibly believe that the Department of Justice is seriously planning to revive the crime of blasphemy for the 21st century?
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Source: www.independent.ie
JUSTICE Minister Dermot Ahern has defended the introduction of a new crime of blasphemous libel, stating that a new definition was required by the Constitution.
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Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Campaigners from Atheist Ireland seek to block legislation carrying hefty fines for blasphemy
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Source: www.latimes.com
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No Blasphemy Law in Ireland
No Blasphemy Law in Ireland
At least the House of Lords ruled that the law was practically useless in the case taken against the people behind Jerry Springer the Musical by Christian Voice. The need to repeal the law and the actual desire to do so exists in Britain unlike the Dáil, that would be my main point of comparison between the two.
May 2 at 4:03pm
No Blasphemy Law in Ireland

No Blasphemy Law in Ireland Dermot Ahern, writing in The Times today, claims that his proposal is intended to prevent a constitutional dilemma due to the presence of an anti-blasphemy section of the Constitution making it an imperative to have one in law, rather than an Amendment. H

May 1 at 8:17am
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