Comments on: Lords vote to retain blasphemy law

By: GagWatch » Preposterous anachronisms return to type

GagWatch » Preposterous anachronisms return to type — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 14:48:26 +0000

[...] After trying to pretend to be all liberal and progressive by voting down the Government’s Incitement to Religious Hatred Bill, The House of Lords has reverted to type by voting to retain Britain’s archaic Blasphemy Law. Posted by Paul in UK (November 13, 2005 at 3:48 pm) [...]

By: Andrew Nixon

Andrew Nixon — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:53:38 +0000

Interesting article on the NSS website: http://www.secularism.org.uk/governmentpromisesrethinkonrelig.html

Apparantly the Bishop of Oxford actually supported the abolition of the blasphemy laws!

Rare common sense from a Bishop!

By: Shaun Hollingworth

Shaun Hollingworth — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:06:55 +0000

Perhaps it’s time the unelected Lords went too…….

By: Blu_Matt

Blu_Matt — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:43:26 +0000

Death to the Queen, and to Hell with the psychotic triune Godhead she represents!

Aww, c’mon, Ben Elton has come out with better than that!

By: Monitor

Monitor — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 22:06:49 +0000

As I recall, because of the wierd historical links of the blasphemy law to the concept of treason you can’t be guilty unless in some way you manage to suggest deposing the monarch (as head of the C of E) in the process of poking fun at the Anglican version of Christianity’s big daddy figure. I doubt if anyone has a wierd enough mind to come up with a religious insult to fit that bill.

Death to the Queen, and to Hell with the psychotic triune Godhead she represents!

Can’t resist a challenge.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:30:13 +0000

On the other hand, talking about blasphemy in a more general sense, I’ve always thought that if Christians claim to be trying to live after their god’s example, most bishops are blasphemers just by continuing to draw breath – two-faced mean-spirited money-grubbing bigots are hardly an example of any deity I’d find sane and reasonable!

By: Andy L

Andy L — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:08:43 +0000

My, who would have thought a body made partitially up of senior members of the CoE would vote to keep their protection!

By: Dan Factor

Dan Factor — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:14:28 +0000

Retaining the powers of relegious zealots to have people prosecuted for saying anything they disagree with is completly out of step with our modern democratic society.
shame on this idiots!

By: Andy A

Andy A — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:54:37 +0000

I suspect there’s a bit of the Establishment here, too. A law to protect the sensibilities and sensitivities of Muslims is perhaps just not part of what old Blighty is about in many of their minds, doncha know? But the old blasphemy law, well, old chap, you just have to keep it, don’t you? What would Aunt Matilda say if I voted against the bally thing?

By: Andrew Nixon

Andrew Nixon — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 11:23:02 +0000

The blasphemy law is pretty pointless these days anyway, as any succesful prosecution under it would be thrown out by the European court of human rights.

I’m sure that the house of lord’s knows this, and this is just to do a bit of arse-kissing to the C of E.

The Commons suck up to the MCB while the Lords suck up to the C of E.