The Racial and Religious Hatred Bill

A news story that is currently running on the London Reuters website tells us that there is a new bill called The Racial and Religious Hatred Bill, which  will give followers of all faiths equal protection from incitement to hatred. 

The bill was designed, "... to address an anomaly in current law which gives Jews and Sikhs protection under the Public Order Act, but not Christians, Muslims or members of other religions."  Not surprisingly Muslims have embraced this bill but civil liberties opponents are opposing it because they fear their speech will be hindered.

There is no mention of the reaction from Christians in the article, but regardless it is very interesting that we even have to have a law to basically tell one another we need to be nice to one another.

Finish reading the article titled, Government unveils bill to stop religious hatred and let me know what you think.

Comments

[bruce]

I would have to disagree with Ghostwalker's spin. In the Koran there are many verses which talk about killing the unbeliever it also says to respect the people of the book.
I fear that many Christians like Ghostwalker are looking forward to the 8th crusade

[Ghostwalker]

Hi Stacy. I did find you by way of LaShawn's page. I have heard about this bill in London. It's actually an attempt to stop people from telling the truth about Islam. You see most Westerner's have no idea that the Quran itself is the source of the killing and terrorism, it's a warfare manual mostly aimed at Christian and Jews, but includes anyone who does not worship Allah. Unfortunately most people dont read the Bible, so we can't expect them to know what's in the Quran.