An Irish referendum to repeal the ban against blasphemy is expected to pass by a 70%/30% margin.
IRELAND’S BLASPHEMY REFERENDUM has gathered attention from the international media in the usual here’s-your-update-on-Catholic-Ireland way.
Despite what’s expected to be a very low turnout, the reference to blasphemy is looking to be removed from the Constitution by a resounding majority of 70%/30% breakdown.
Has it ever seemed strange to y’all that science doesn’t require special legal protections, but religion does? The reason, of course, is that the conclusions of science have a pedigree, tens of thousands of observations by tens of thousands of different individuals, and tens of thousands of subsequent refinements as a hypothesis is transformed into a theory. But religion, always, is undocumented make-believe and superstition.
So … good for the Irish! it wasn’t so long ago that Ireland was merely a minor department of the Catholic Church, and it’s good to see even them turning their backs on those predators.