Beyond belief: up to 5 years for a joke about the Pope

No, it isn’t some lunatic fantasy of some depraved Catholic, it’s the reality of Italian law.
In 1929 the fascist leader of Italy, Benito Mussolini, signed the Lateran Treaty, part of which provided that an insult to the Pope carries the same penalty as an insult to the Italian President.  Bizarrely, insulting the President in Italy [...]

CA Proposition 8, already struggling, now looks dead in the water after rewording

Since rewording, the California ballot proposition to eliminate gay marriage seems doomed