A MONTREAL man brought before a beak on a charge of blasphemy has been acquitted because the words “fuck you” do not refer to God or any sacred item.
The wearer of this T-shirt looks a pillock - but at least he's not a blasphemous pillock!
Charles-Yves Dupuy was arrested under Montreal’s blasphemy bye-law after he used the words against two police officers in May 2006.
But last week, according to this report, Judge Pierre Bouchard said that while the words were widely regarded as “incorrect, impolite and crude,” they should not be considered blasphemous under the bylaw.
According to police, the officers asked for Dupuy’s name, figuring he had broken the bylaw.
They arrested Dupuy for obstruction of justice when he refused to tell them his identity.
The judge acquitted Dupuy, saying he did not have to give police his name in the first place and therefore did not obstruct the officers’ work.
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
November 10th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Canada has to get religion out of its legal system.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:52 am
in Cagliari, Sardinia, when Pope was visiting the city (more than 1 million euro burnt at this purpose by the italian state) a guy was arrested for wearing a T-shirt of Bad Religion. And even if he was released by police, he hadn’t his T-shirt back.
November 10th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
I’m still waiting to arrested for wearing my badge with the slogan: “Religious belief is a mental illness” I have several of these attached to various jackets. I must get the same slogan put on a T-shirt.
November 10th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
That’s hilarious, but at least the courts sided with the victim.
And, being Montreal, maybe it would have been less offensive had it been a swear written in French. Some Quebeccers have a real dislike of English speakers.