Referendum Campaign News | Repeal Irelands Blasphemy Law

June 12, 2018 No Comments Michael Nugent

Atheist Ireland welcomes blasphemy referendum in October

Atheist Ireland welcomes the announcement that our decade-long campaign for a referendum on the blasphemy law has been successful. We will finally be able to vote in October to remove this anachronistic, silly, and dangerous clause from our constitution. The blasphemy ban is anachronistic, because we should be removing 1930s ...

September 27, 2017 4 Comments John Hamill

Referendum on blasphemy

Atheist Ireland welcomes the announcement today by An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, that our campaign for a referendum on blasphemy has been successful. There will be a referendum on the blasphemy provision within the Irish Constitution during October of 2018 and Atheist Ireland will be campaigning strongly to reform, update and ...

June 4, 2017 No Comments John Hamill

The Danish Blasphemy Law has been abolished!

In a vote in the Danish parliament recently, their Blasphemy Law was abolished by a majority of 75 - 27. The proposal to abolish was made from the socialists in 'Enhedslisten', but was backed from both sides of the aisle. The Danish Humanist Society has had abolishment as a goal ...

May 9, 2017 No Comments Michael Nugent

Gardai decision to drop Stephen Fry blasphemy investigation creates an incentive to demonstrate outrage

The Gardai are reported to have decided to not proceed with the Stephen Fry blasphemy investigation. The reported reason for this decision is even more dangerous than a prosecution would have been. The Gardai have not denied that the comments were grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matter held ...

May 6, 2017 No Comments Michael Nugent

Stephen Fry blasphemy investigation also threatens RTE, Irish Times and Atheist Ireland

The police investigation into Stephen Fry for blasphemy also threatens RTE, the Irish Times and Atheist Ireland. The offence of blasphemy is committed not only by the person who first utters a blasphemous statement, but also by anybody who publishes it. RTE published the statement by Stephen Fry when they ...

May 6, 2017 No Comments Michael Nugent

International blasphemy expert Prof David Nash responds to police investigation of Stephen Fry

Professor David Nash of Oxford Brookes University is an international expert on the history and contemporary status of blasphemy laws throughout Europe and beyond. He has worked with Atheist Ireland at the United Nations and the Irish Constitutional Convention to seek abolition of the Irish blasphemy law. He has today ...

May 6, 2017 1 Comment Michael Nugent

Atheist Ireland republishes 25 blasphemous quotes in solidarity with Stephen Fry

Atheist Ireland welcomes the Irish police investigation into Stephen Fry for blasphemy. It highlights a law that is silly, silencing, and dangerous. On 1 January 2010, the day the new Irish blasphemy law became operational, Atheist Ireland published a list of 25 blasphemous quotes in order to challenge the law. Today, ...

May 6, 2017 No Comments Michael Nugent

Atheist Ireland welcomes police investigation into Stephen Fry for blasphemy

Atheist Ireland welcomes the police investigation into Stephen Fry for blasphemy. It highlights a law that is silly, silencing, and dangerous. It is a silly law because it suggests that the creator of the universe needs the Oireachtas to protect its feelings. It is a silencing law because many Irish ...

September 30, 2016 No Comments Michael Nugent

Atheist Ireland Statement on International Blasphemy Rights Day 2016

Today, on International Blasphemy Rights Day, the eleventh anniversary of the Danish Mohammad cartoons, Atheist Ireland calls for the urgent repeal of the Irish blasphemy law, and the release of all prisoners held around the world on blasphemy and related charges, of which we include fifteen examples in this statement. ...

June 2, 2016 No Comments John Hamill

Fifty Secular Groups Urge Repeal of Greek Blasphemy Law

Atheist Ireland has consistently opposed blasphemy laws, both in Ireland and also internationally as members of International Coalition Against Blasphemy Law (ICABL). [caption id="attachment_1278" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] International Coalition Against Blasphemy Law[/caption] As part of these efforts with international partners, Atheist Ireland has become one of more than fifty organisations to sign ...

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