Posted on 10/28/2018 4:38:18 PM PDT by marshmallow
‘Ireland is rightly proud of our reputation as a modern, liberal society,’ says Flanagan
Every single one of the 40 constituencies in Ireland voted to remove the word “blasphemous” from article 40.6.1 of the Constitution in a unanimity unique in recent Irish referendums.
Last Friday’s vote was closest in constituencies along the Wild Atlantic Way. In Donegal 51.5 per cent voted Yes to 48.4 per cent No, while those in Sligo-Leitrim voted 56.1 per cent to 43.9 per cent to change the Constitution.
Meanwhile, voters in Mayo voted by 56.9 per cent to 43.07 per cent; though the heavily urbanised Galway West constituency was an outlier where 65.8 per cent voted Yes and 34.1 per cent voted No.
Last May Donegal was the only constituency to reject removal of the Eighth Amendment from the Constitution in the abortion referendum, and in May 2015 Roscommon-South Leitrim was alone in voting No to same-sex marriage.
In Clare 61.8 per cent voted Yes and 38.1 per cent vote No, while in Kerry 57.6 voted Yes and 42.3 per cent vote No.
(Excerpt) Read more at irishtimes.com ...
A certain religion will be exempted...
It will be called a hate crime to call them out.
“Of all the strange crimes that humanity has legislated out of nothing, blasphemy is the most amazing - with obscenity and indecent exposure fighting it out for second and third place.”
-—Robert A. Heinlein, Notebooks of Lazarus Long
Yep a crazed socialist who loved swinging. Not my idea of a major though leader.
Yep a crazed socialist who loved swinging. Not my idea of a major thought leader.
The only reason these were keep on the books was to protect a it. Then they realized they didn’t need the law and will just protect is specifically.
The states might have voted as one, but lots of people still voted against it.
Correction welcome.
Exactly. The original law was never enforced (but was meant to protect against Protestant attacks on Catholic faith terms). However, Islam will be exempted, and words against the Bhagwan...err, I mean, Mohammed, willl be totally protected.
The best way to approach this is to say that “Ireland has voted to disparage Mohamed and Islam.” Wouldn’t that make them squirm?
Don’t worry. The moslems will put it back, and these same liberals will be cheering.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein
Heinlein ceased considering himself a Democrat in 1954. He was among those who in 1968 signed a pro-Vietnam War ad in Galaxy Science Fiction.
Heinlein considered himself a libertarian; in a letter to Judith Merril in 1967 (never sent) he said, “As for libertarian, I’ve been one all my life, a radical one. You might use the term “philosophical anarchist” or “autarchist” about me, but “libertarian” is easier to define and fits well enough.”
He was, in fact, a socialist. His libertarianism was how he justified his libertine lifestyle.
He was a socialist in his early years, granted...but he did a complete 180 as he matured.
His Hugo Award winning novel “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” (just as an example) is a work which espouses economic freedom, not collectivism. It’s well known as one of the greatest Libertarian sf novels of all time.
If you read all of his works, from the first to the last, you will understand partly. But more you need to look to what he did rather than what he wrote. He was a “free love” classic California closet socialist. He masked it well, but there it is.
How grateful we should be that our Founding Fathers shielded us from mob democracy by crafting a constitution that can’t be changed at the whim of a majority of voters.
Yeah, @#$*^ it, software people need to let it out.
I’ve read virtually his entire body of work. I’m not sure why you’re conflating his views on economics with what he thought of sexual mores,
but calling him a “socialist” other than in his youth is absurd. I can provide reams of documentation that show he was ( on the whole) a Libertarian on this issue, not a collectivist.
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