I have signed the polling day order for the proposal on the 37th Amendment of the Constitution – Repeal of offence of publication or utterance of blasphemous matter.
Polling day is the 26 October – the same day as polling day in the Presidential election.
— Eoghan Murphy (@MurphyEoghan) September 21, 2018
There you go now.
Read the bill in full here
Previously: “We Believed That We Would Never See A Prosecution For It”
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good to see the minister for nice folks from Ranelagh is on top of all the important matters
You don’t have the Lord in you.
Blasphemy!
Stone him!
All i said was that piece of halibut was good enough for jehova
Scottster
Its Jehovah not Jehova
YHWH
Ye wha’?
Sorry steven
Why didn’t they throw the women’s place in the home referendum in with this?
Why not amend the constitution to define the place of men? (i.e., also in the home).
Or even make it gender neutral?
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/referendum-on-sexist-reference-to-women-s-place-in-the-home-postponed-1.3619116
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/october-vote-on-womens-place-in-the-home-will-not-happen-37288152.html
Apparently it got complicated.
The public consultation wanted to amend it to make it gender neutral, the government wanted to delete it entirely.
The government only likes public consultation when it agrees with what they wanted to do anyway.
Except on the abortion referendum, in fairness.
They mostly agreed with the Repeal proposals but they bottled it.
It’s a hell of a lot simpler; you’re only removing one word.
The debate on the women’s place we mostly about what gets put in.
It’s really nice to see this being done with so little fuss.
+Tá
Aye.
yeah, should probably be amended to be gender neutral but it is important to note the intent of Article 41.1 in the constitution – it is there to acknowledge the beneficial work a stay-at-home parent…be careful of the baby when throwing out bathwater.
Really well said. I like the cut off your jib.
+1
Thank God (blessed be her name)
They should remove ‘sedition’ as well.
Is anyone seriously going to oppose this?
oooh boy, yes. You kick over a log and all sorts of bugs will crawl out.
Should be a nice distraction from the Presidential quagmire at least.
that’s a big +1 from me.
It would be great to see that Iona crowd getting trounced again but that would mean having to put up with them on the airwaves for another month.
Sure we can see that with Joan “What’s the Iona institute?” Freeman.
I caught about 5 mins of whats his face on Oireachtas TV last night ‘debating’ it’s retention…
Mullen, that’s him, yeah…. that fella. It was too waffley and I can’t recall any of what he said :)
If we as a nation can be proud about age discrimination and not allow the possibility of anyone under 35 to even to run for the largely pointless ceremonial figurehead office of president then of course we can make a mess of almost any constitutional amendment for all the wrong reasons.
Some people have a very strange ideas of freedom, equality and fraternity,
Good grief, 35 is young enough.
Wasn’t William Pitt the Younger 24 when he became Prime Minister of Britain?
Not even allowing for the possibility of an excellent candidate under the age of 35 is shameful discrimination.
You don’t have to vote for them but not letting them run is wrong.
Especially considering the eejits running this time.
I’m uneasy about this. It seemed like a hypothetical stick to beat out and out bigots with. Like, if we start down the route of other european countries and start to see more and more disquiet with muslim immigration, it would be handy to have something that would maaaaybe dissuade the more ‘Allah is a bollix’ types at various marches.
However, it was a perfectly crafted piece of ligislation that never had a hope of seeing a prosecution from it so i suppose its no loss
Well, we have the Human Rights & Equality Commission to decide what is hate-speech and soon to decide what aught to be compelled speech – so this blasphemy thing is ready for decommissioning. We have newer tools to control people – la plus ca change…
What “compelled speech” are we to expect… 63 new pronouns ?