[ExI] two years in the slammer for blammisphy?

spike spike66 at att.net
Mon May 10 05:53:34 UTC 2010


How the hell did we get here?
 
http://www.palibandaily.com/2010/05/08/polish-pop-star-faces-two-years-priso
n-for-blasphemy/
 
spike
 
 
 
 
Think the religious right goes overboard in the US? Under Poland's blasphemy
law, a Polish pop singer is facing two years in jail for interview comments
about the Bible. 

26-year-old Dorota Rabczewska, known as "Doda", is a Polish pop star.
Generally not much different from American pop stars - other than being a
member of MENSA <http://www.mensa.org/>  - Doda likes to speak her mind.
That's gotten her into some hot water this time around.

In a television interview last year, Doda explained that she found it far
easier to believe in dinosaurs than the Bible; "it is hard to believe in
something written by people who drank too much wine and smoked herbal
cigarettes."

Polish Catholics weren't too pleased. Under Poland's draconian blasphemy
law, simply offending someone's religious sensibilities can earn you hefty
fines and even imprisonment...

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