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Ireland repeals its blasphemy law

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dpareja:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/27/ireland-votes-to-oust-blasphemy-ban-from-constitution

The Irish constitution used to make blasphemy illegal. A few days ago, Irish voters, by a nearly two-to-one margin, repealed that ban.

Jacob Harrison:
It shows how formerly Catholic Ireland has fallen into apostasy. :(

dpareja:
The Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference, which had opposed the 34th Amendment (legalizing same-sex marriage), and said that passage of the 36th Amendment (lifting the constitutional near-ban on abortion) would be "a shocking step" and "a manifest injustice" (see The Irish Times), took a neutral position on this amendment, calling the provision repealed "largely obsolete" and noting that similar provisions elsewhere "have been used to justify violence and oppression against minorities," and that promoting freedom of conscience and religion "greatly increases the social fabric of a country." (Again, see The Irish Times.)

Maybe after voters ripped them a few new ones with the 34th and 36th, they thought not coming out against the 37th would keep some people who wanted to poke them in the eye a third time at home so it would fail.

Art Vandelay:
Slowly but surely, religious power and influence is being eroded all throughout the first world. It's truly a beautiful sight to behold.

Jacob Harrison:

--- Quote from: dpareja on October 31, 2018, 08:59:52 pm ---The Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference, which had opposed the 34th Amendment (legalizing same-sex marriage), and said that passage of the 36th Amendment (lifting the constitutional near-ban on abortion) would be "a shocking step" and "a manifest injustice" (see The Irish Times), took a neutral position on this amendment, calling the provision repealed "largely obsolete" and noting that similar provisions elsewhere "have been used to justify violence and oppression against minorities," and that promoting freedom of conscience and religion "greatly increases the social fabric of a country." (Again, see The Irish Times.)

Maybe after voters ripped them a few new ones with the 34th and 36th, they thought not coming out against the 37th would keep some people who wanted to poke them in the eye a third time at home so it would fail.

--- End quote ---

It shows that the Vatican 2 Bishops of Ireland have also fallen into apostasy, calling a sacred law that protects God from blashphemy obsolete and saying that decreasing Christian influence in a traditionally Catholic nation increases the social fabric of the country.

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