Friday 10th February 2012
Pop princess Doda to do time?
7th May 2010
© Michał Jabłoński
Doda - causing outrage once again
Controversial singer Doda is facing the prospect of doing two years behind bars for alleging that the Bible was written by people with a fondness for drinking too much wine and smoking herbal cigarettes.
Warsaw prosecutors have taken a dim view to off-the-cuff comments the 26-year-old singer made during a television interview a year ago and have charged her with insulting religious sentiment.
Dorota Rabczewska, to give the performer her actual name, got into trouble when she said she believed more in dinosaurs than the Bible because “it is hard to believe in something written by people who drank too much wine and smoked herbal cigarettes.”
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