Denmark’s Blasphemy Law Has Been Repealed

peter.suber's bookmarks 2017-06-04

Summary:

"Your move, Ireland and New Zealand.

After a flurry of activity over the past few months, and a glimmer of hope last week, the Danish Parliament has finally repealed its archaic harmful law punishing blasphemy, voting 75 to 27 to make Denmark great again.

While the law has rarely been successfully used against anyone — the last time was 1946 — a prosecutor cited it as recently as this past February to punish a man for burning a Qur’an in late 2015. Had he been convicted, he could have gone to prison for up to four months...."

Link:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/06/02/denmarks-blasphemy-law-has-been-repealed/

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Tags:

offense religion blasphemy

Date tagged:

06/04/2017, 16:32

Date published:

06/04/2017, 12:32