Racial and Religious Hatred Bill
This created controversy. Many people, both Christian and secular, held concerns that it could result in restrictions to freedom of speech, expression and religion. However, amendments alleviated many of these fears.
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Religious Hatred Bill Victory
1/2/2006
On Tuesday the 31st January the government’s version of the Racial and Religious Hatred Bill was defeated, despite the government’s majority of 67MPs and the immense pressure exerted by the government to get people to vote for the Bill. It is only the second time in 9 years that Labour have lost a vote in the Commons. It was a vote which even the...
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Racial and Religious Hatred Bill - Arguments FOR and AGAINST -
Arguments/comments made from those for the law: - Law is needed because of the particular vulnerability of religious minorities and is only aimed at really serious cases (e.g. attacks on mosques after September 11th). - The new law addresses a gap whereby existing race law protects Jews and Sikhs, because they are...
Racial and Religious Hatred Bill - House of Lords takes a strong stand for freedom of speech -
The free speech amendment to the Racial and Religious Hatred Bill tabled by Lord Lester, Lord Hunt of Wirral, Lord Plant of Highfield and the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey succeeded by a massive 260 votes to 111, two-and-a-half to one. This was a significant defeat for the Government. The full set of marshalled amendments...
The Australian Case – Comparisons -
A brief summary of the situation in Australia - Daniel Scot, a Christian pastor from Pakistan living in Australia, held a seminar on 9 March 2002 in which he, an expert on Islam, sought to teach members of his congregation about what it says in the Qur'an and what some Muslims believe. Muslims had infiltrated the group and reported...
Criminalising Christian behaviour - legally enforced political correctness (triple helix - autumn 2005)
This edition of Triple Helix highlights three possible changes in British Law that could lead to Christians receiving criminal convictions - The first involves Lord Joffe's Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill (p4), which requires doctors who are not willing to authorise euthanasia to refer...
Religious Hatred Law (triple helix - autumn 2005)
Mark Mullins reviews the proposed new legislation - For the third time since coming to power the Government is seeking to pass a law against stirring up religious hatred. It is, in my view, a blasphemy law for all religions in all but name and, as a result, risks seriously limiting the freedom of...