No happy medium

HAS our Minister for Justice really gone off his rocker in proposing a new crime of “blasphemous libel”?

Sat, 09 May, 2009 - 01:00

Is he proposing that Irish law will punish atheists like me for ridiculing religious or other like beliefs while upholding the dangerous thinking of religious fundamentalists. There is no happy medium.

Brendan Ronayne

Bridgewater

Carrigrohane

Co Cork

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