Italian Actress faces Jail for Suggesting Pope will go to Hell.
Really, I’m not making this up.
Sabina Guzzanti, a popular actress and comic, had joked at an anti-politics rally that Pope Benedict XVI, known for his hardline views on homosexuality, would “go to hell and be pursued by two big, gay and very active devils”.Rome’s prosecutor Giovanni Ferrara said he wants to start proceedings against her for “vilification” of the Pope under article of 313 of the penal code. Ferrara said that the offence caused by her comments went beyond satire.
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So why is it that these religious people can say all manner of hateful things about others, including condemning them to hell every little thing imaginable, but if someone does the same to them it’s grounds for legal action? Oh, that’s right. Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Speech only go one way with some people. Granted this is Italy and not the US, so our Constitution doesn’t apply, but apparently the unilateral nature of the principles still does.
And that “do as I say, not as I do” principle is universal, it seems.
