As ridiculous as it seems today, conviction and imprisonment for blasphemy in 1979 was a real risk to those facing the charges
As a presentation at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences will demonstrate, Monty Python’s Life of Brian played an important role in the history of free expression in Canadian law, as the inspiration for the last charge ever laid under the defunct criminal offence of blasphemous libel, and an illustration for why that law had to be repealed, which did not finally happen until about five years ago.
Famously, it ends with Brian, played by the late Graham Chapman, on a cross, singing “always look on the bright side of life.” So as ridiculous as it seems in hindsight today, conviction and imprisonment for blasphemy in Sault Ste. Marie in 1979 seemed a real risk to those facing the charges.Article content
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