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13 May 2017

9:00 AM

13 May 2017

9:00 AM

God forbid

Irish police investigated Stephen Fry over a complaint of blasphemy, which is no longer a criminal offence in Britain.
— The last prosecution was a private case brought by Mary Whitehouse against Gay News and its editor Denis Lemon over a poem in which a Roman centurion tells of having sex with Jesus after his crucifixion.

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