NOTHING IS SACRED: Blasphemy in Ireland.(Brief Article)

From: Commonweal | Date: September 24, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

The Irish Supreme Court, in a recent judgment, struck a major blow in defense of freedom of speech and-paradoxically-raised questions about whether, in this most religious of countries, anyone can ever be successfully indicted for blasphemy.

The framers of the Irish constitution, which came into force in 1937, would have been appalled by the question. They did not even need pressure from clerics of all denominations to draft article 40, which laid down that "the publication or utterance of blasphemous matter is an offense which shall be punishable in accordance with law." ...

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