One thing to be proud about - the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and most of the EU countries voted nay on the idiotic UN blasphemy resolution. The UK support is somewhat hypocritical since it is still against the law to commit blasphemous libel, which I can do by simply publishing this poem (James Kirkup’s The Love That Dare Not Speak It’s Name - a graphically explicit poem about a homosexual relationship between a crucified Jesus Christ and a Roman Centurion soldier).
In order to show solidarity for the true meaning of human rights and civil liberties, we need to fill the world with more James Kirkup, more material designed solely to irritate and offend religious people. You don’t have a right not to be offended. It’s a by-product of free speech that you get offended. I get offended when you say that I’m an amoral, godless heathen and that I’m going to have my skin repeatedly scorched off by demons for the rest of eternity because I think that the universe makes more sense without invoking magic. But I don’t try and legislate away your offensiveness.
The more religious types want to ban offensiveness, the more I will actively try and offend their sensibilities. It’s the only way. Which reminds me: Mohammed Image Archive, loltheist and gay Jesus.
