The right to blaspheme is a basic human right. Or it should be in a modern democracy.

If your God can’t take me calling him a pig felcher, then he ain’t much of a God.

Of course, Ireland, notwithstanding its economic success until recently, is still very much a 3rd world nation, so the Irish Minister of Justice, Dermot Asshole Ahern, has decided to ignore the European Convention on Human Rights, and put forward a bill to make it crime, punishable by a fine of up to €100,000 to, utter or write anything “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 he or she intends, by the publication of the matter concerned, to cause such outrage”.

There is no institution that needs the air let out of it than organized religion, and the right of people to do this should not be abridged.