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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/03/world/europe/led-by-pirates-iceland-legalizes-blasphemy.html?_r=3
:shock:
I would not have guessed such a law was in place in a country like Iceland to begin with.
Good for them.
Less than a week after Iceland’s prime minister contended that his nation’s fundamental values would be at risk should the insurgent Pirate Party ever come to power, the group celebrated its first legislative success on Thursday, the decriminalization of blasphemy.
Birgitta Jonsdottir, one of three Pirates in the Althing, Iceland’s Parliament, was among party activists celebrating the vote in favor of their bill to repeal the prohibition on impious irreverence, which had been in force since 1940.
:shock:
I would not have guessed such a law was in place in a country like Iceland to begin with.
Good for them.