Blasphemy Convictions
Blasphemy Convictions is an article published in the Weekly Dispatch on 14 january 1912.
Blasphemy Convictions
An extensively signed petition has been forwarded to Mr. McKenna, the Home Secretary, urging the immediate release of the two men, Thomas William Stewart and John William Gott, sentenced at Leeds on December 5 last to three and four months' imprisonment respectively for blasphemy.
The petitioners express the view that "punishment for blasphemy is a form of religions persecution and inconsistent with modern ideas of toleration."
Among the signatories to the petition are Lord Courtney of Penwith, Sir J. Brunner, Mr. J. M. Robertson (Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade), Sir A. Conan Doyle, Mr. I. Zangwill, Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins, Mr. John Galsworthy, Sir Laurence Gomme, and Mr. G. Bernard Shaw.
