Statement from the Church and Society Commission of the Church of Ireland, on the Referendum to remove the reference to blasphemy in the Irish Constitution. The statement is issued by the Chair of the Commission, the Rt Revd Kenneth Kearon, Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe.
We acknowledge that the current reference to blasphemy in the Constitution of Ireland is largely obsolete.
We recognise that there is grave concern at the way blasphemy laws have been used to justify violence and oppression against minorities in other parts of the world.
There is a fundamental human right to freedom of religion, but…
