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It won't go anywhere. Bizarrely the Irish blasphemy law is designed to be basically unenforceable, a fact admitted by the very minister who implemented it to mu
by g5555 9y ago
It won't go anywhere. Bizarrely the Irish blasphemy law is designed to be basically unenforceable, a fact admitted by the very minister who implemented it to much backlash at the time. The Irish government didn't even want a blasphemy law - it was forced to write one to fill a hole in the law caused by a reference to blasphemy in the Constitution. An early blasphemy law had been removed but removing it from law entirely requires a referendum to alter the Constitution. The "temporary" solution was a law worded in such a way any prosecution was pretty unlikely.
- ch_123 9y agoThe government has even expressed an intent to get rid of the law - http://www.merrionstreet.ie/MerrionStreet/en/ImageLibrary/Programme_for_Partnership_Government.pdf#page=153 http://www.merrionstreet.ie/MerrionStreet/en/ImageLibrary/Pr... It's still pretty embarrassing that this sort of thing can happen. I hope the negative attention this will bring will force some progress on the matter.
- everyone 9y agoThe Irish constitution was written after a war of independence immediately followed by a civil war. Ireland was a mix of socialist dictatorship and theocracy at the time. The constitution is very weird and causes issues like this. It needs to be changed. Though in fairness the progress we have made socially has been extremely rapid and profound. Have a look at the film "The rocky road to Dublin", a documentary about life in Ireland in the 60's, made by an outsider. To see how bad things were until that recently (Its like Iran under the Shah or something)
- Hydraulix989 9y agoA law isn't unenforceable until it is no longer a law.