“While not used in Scotland in modern times, having such laws makes it more difficult to call on other countries to scrap their blasphemy laws.
Source/Credit: The Scotsman
By Scott Macnab | July 2, 2017
A new Holyrood bid to scrap Scotland’s centuries old laws on blasphemy has been launched amid fears the country is being left behind the rest of the UK and other European nations.
A petition lodged with MSPs says the laws are “archaic and unfathomable” at a time when non-religious minorities face persecution around the world.
Scotland’s blasphemy laws were last used almost two centuries ago to convict Edinburgh bookseller Thomas Paterson.
The Humanist Society of Scotland says the laws are a “badge of shame” and backed the calls for the Scottish Government to scrap them. But the move has met with a frosty reception from the Catholic church which sees it as a further attempt to remove religion from Scots “civic and political” life.
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