Reply #37: So, you would support Ireland's anti-blasphemy law...

[brooklynite]

After all, their Constitution supports free speech:

(6.1) The State guarantees liberty for the exercise of the following rights, subject to public order and morality:--
(i) The right of the citizens to express freely their convictions and opinions.

But somehow, that Constitutional right still allows the state to criminalize any comment deemed offensive about any religion:

(2) For the purposes of this section, a person publishes or utters blasphemous matter if—
(a) he or she publishes or utters matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that religion, and (b) he or she intends, by the publication or utterance of the matter concerned, to cause such outrage.

Would a law like this get passed in United States? I'm not personally willing to assume not. I'll stick with the 1st Amendment as is, thank you.