Lee Reynolds on June 19, 2007, 5:02 pm | Readers 149
A person is invited to deliver a humourous after dinner speech. It’s a smoke filled room. He begins by saying “Fuck sake has another pope died?”. Bad taste? A good opener? Free speech? Blatant sectarianism? Anti-sectarianism and Roman Catholic groups are calling for action. Others believe it is free speech and objections charaterise Catholics as humourless and narrow-minded. The Faculty of Advocates is having to decide .
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