Readers' Blog: Why get rid if blasphemy laws are so weak?

It is hard to see the point of voting to remove the word “blasphemous” from the constitutional article on decorum in public life.

Readers' Blog: Why get rid if blasphemy laws are so weak?

It is hard to see the point of voting to remove the word “blasphemous” from the constitutional article on decorum in public life.

For the religiously-minded, God does not need legal protection, but the clause at least requires some level of respect towards the sensitivities of the religious to the things they regard as truly sacred.

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