blasphemy in Ireland

Because it's in the Constitution of the Irish State, so, its' argued, it has to be in the new Defamation bill, which has just passed into law. There is now a fine of €25,000 for blasphemy. My reaction is, of course, anger. They should ignore the Constitution, since a legal case under it is well nigh impossible, and get a referendum amending the Constitution. Now there is a much greater chance that somebody will offend some religious nut case and end up €25,000 worse off (they are incredibly easy to offend). Ireland will, even more than it is now, look pathetic and stupid, and civil liberties will be at an all time low.

Here is my modest contribution: if God exists and was responsible for all the things attributed to him in the Bible, including genocide, ethnic cleansing, the merciless persecution of women, and programming humanity with a built-in flaw that dooms many to an afterlife of continual torture, He is an evil bastard.