God$&@!it
This one is Sullivan bait if anything ever was.
If you visit Ireland after October, you’d better watch what you say about God.
A blasphemous slip of the tongue could cost you 25,000 euros under revamped legislation that will soon be signed into law.
I’ve always believed that having to legislate respect to one’s deity sort of takes the meaning out it. How the Irish are supposed to make it through an evening at the pub is beyond me.
Allahupundit also points us to this bit of good ol’ fashioned irony.
They’ll just change to American-style profanity based on sex and bodily functions. A pity for the cultural damage, though.Report