The Summer's Gone

Charles Oliver | 12.23.2015 6:00 AM

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Belfast pastor James McConnell faces jail time after being tried for a hate crime. Prosecutors charged McConnell after he denounced Islam during a sermon, calling it a "doctrine spawned in Hell" and Allah a "demon deity."

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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December.23.2015 at 6:38 am

Shouldn’t he have gotten jail time for denouncing hell? The Satanists were defamed. And I certainly hope he never talked smack about the Star Wars prequels. The Jedi religion has rights, too.