Blasphemy is dead. Long live blasphemy

The "marketplace of ideas" was nice while it lasted

The European court has overturned the prison sentence handed down to a feminist who interrupted a Catholic Mass at the Madeleine church in Paris, topless, and simulated “aborting” Jesus before urinating on the steps of the altar.

Hurrah for free speech and the marketplace of ideas? For some decades now, those most committed to the “marketplace of ideas” …