Becket Fund: Presidential candidates should support law to protect Americans from foreign defamation judgements
The Becket Fund has issued this press release that begins:
Angela C. Wu, international law director at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, today (July 17, 2008) challenged U.S. presidential candidates Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain to support legislation currently before Congress that is designed to protect Americans from defamation judgments of foreign courts that violate the U.S. Constitution. The legislation would protect individuals who are charged with what are essentially blasphemy laws that protect religions from so-called defamation.