Posted on 05/03/2023 7:02:59 PM PDT by marshmallow
In Ireland, the mere possession of images on a mobile phone that contradict the approved government narrative could soon be grounds for imprisonment.
(LifeSiteNews) — With the further advancement of the latest hate speech legislation in Ireland comes the realization of a warning — published in the Catholic Herald last November —that “Ireland’s proposed ‘hate speech’ laws will lead to the criminalization of religious beliefs and Church teaching.”
The Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offenses) Bill, 2022, which has been described as the creation of “thought crime” by Irish Member of Parliament (TD) Paul Murphy, provoked an outraged response from Independent Irish Senator Ronan Mullen, who remarked on Twitter on April 30:
Awaiting Seanad debate on flawed Hate Bill that (1) doesn’t define hate, (2) seems to penalise ‘thought crimes’ and (3) gives legal force to mad new definition of ‘gender’. Where are the civil liberties people, @ICCLtweet, @_IHREC, and @fiannafailparty @FineGael - all captured?
As Dubhaltach O Reachtnin wrote in November 2022:
The Catholic Church has long-standing objective positions on issues, which, if they are to be uttered in public (and that may include the pulpit), may cause the priest or other adherent to be made subject to prosecution.
This law, as with those in other nations, simply redesignates objection to the progressive agenda as a criminal offense. This is the only means of legal self-preservation for an ideology that cannot survive a rational argument.
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Not only could it, I expect that’s the whole point.
Good. What the Church needs to purify itself from the disease of modernism which has weakened her since Vatican II are martyrs to suffer and de for the faith. I’m serious.
A very well-stated polemic. I hope this bill does not pass. The soros machine has been funding a great destruction on the Emerald Isle.
These morons really do want a war...
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