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- Title: Strategies for Fighting Blasphemy Laws in a Post-Tolerant World.
- Author : The Humanist
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 420 KB
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THE NEW DECADE was ushered in by a disturbing headline: "Irelands New Blasphemy Law Goes into Effect." New blasphemy law? Don't those belong in some earlier century? The unfortunate answer is no--blasphemy laws are making a comeback, and not just in Ireland. Prior to 1978, no Englishman had been prosecuted for blasphemy in fifty-seven years; the last person to earn this distinction was John Gott, a fifty-six-year-old tailor who compared Jesus to a clown. His health was so broken by his sentence of nine months at hard labor that he died shortly after his release. Then in 1978, thirty years after Lord Denning had pronounced the blasphemy laws a "dead letter" in England and a decade after a 1697 blasphemy statute had been stricken from the books, an English Christian busybody brought a private, common-law blasphemy prosecution against a publication called the Gay News. The news paper and its editor were both fined for publishing a poem suggesting that Jesus engaged in homosexual activity, and the editor received a nine-month suspended jail sentence. On appeal the jail sentence was stricken, but the conviction and fines were upheld.
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