Blasphemy in Ireland

So it looks like an atheist group is challenging a new Irish law that gives the government the power to enforce a much older law against blasphemy. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/new-irish-blasphemy-law-broken/?p… Seriously? We haven’t had enough trouble with religious nut jobs in recent years to realize that religion is the problem, not the solution? This quote from Michael Nugent, co-founder of Atheist Ireland says it well: “medieval religious laws have no place in a modern secular republic, where the criminal law should protect…