{"id":591,"date":"2009-04-29T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/04\/29\/irish-blasphemy-law-proposal\/"},"modified":"2009-04-29T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T15:33:00","slug":"irish-blasphemy-law-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/04\/29\/irish-blasphemy-law-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish blasphemy law proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a proposed amendment to Irish defemation legislation including an updated blasphemy Libel law. Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/frontpage\/2009\/0429\/1224245599892.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As TheObserver and Gary C point out. The article says:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic\">&#8220;Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern proposes to insert a new section into the Defamation Bill, stating: \u201cA person who publishes or utters blasphemous matter shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding \u20ac100,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlasphemous matter\u201d is defined as matter \u201cthat is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that religion; and he or she intends, by the publication of the matter concerned, to cause such outrage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Where a person is convicted of an offence under this section, the court may issue a warrant authorising the Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na to enter, if necessary using reasonable force, a premises.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a proposed amendment to Irish defemation legislation including an updated blasphemy Libel law. Go here. As TheObserver and Gary C point out. The article says: &#8220;Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern proposes to insert a new section into the Defamation Bill, stating: \u201cA person who publishes or utters blasphemous matter shall be guilty of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}