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Fri 07 Jul 2009Wording of law to criminalise blasphemy a farce, says Norris
SEANAD REPORT:DAVID NORRIS (Ind) said he was astonished that the Minister for Justice told the Dáil that legislation to criminalise blasphemy had been drawn up to make it virtually impossible to get a successful prosecution out of it. That was a very peculiar way to be drafting law.
“It is a complete farce, a nonsense and an insult to the intelligence of the Irish people.”
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