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Who said the Irish were dumb?

Post by stui magpie »

Scotch finger biscuits.


Ehhhh, no. Sorry, that just came automatically to mind.

From the country that in the very recent past has dragged itself from the late 19th century into the 21st century by first legalising same sex marriage and then abortion, they now look to amend their constitution to remove the offence of Blasphemy.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/27/euro ... index.html

Good on em.
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Post by thesoretoothsayer »

Funny, because the European Court of Human Rights (which, I believe, all EU nations are subject to) seems to have just instituted blasphemy laws across Europe:
https://reason.com/blog/2018/10/25/euro ... on-muhamma
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"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
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Agreed.

And agreed.

And agreed.

Look, its not unusual for me to agree with David. And, curiously enough, I agree with Stui fairly frequently. But for me to agree with Thesoretoothsayer and David and Stui .... I think I had better ban myself for a couple of weeks just to be safe.
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:lol:

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