Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Religious Hatred Bill Defeated

Have only just caught on but this is the best news from Parliament in a while and hopefully will represent the turning of a tide.

Could it be that in waking up to the importance of the freedom of speech, that people will also wake up to the importance of making serious moral evaluations, for in having the blank slate of true freedom in the moral sphere, rather than a set of prescribed ways of thinking, it should prompt people finally to think clearly for themselves, and to take their own decisions seriously.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Am a bit uncertain about the details of this. Wasn't the bill from last year (June I think) to make it as illegal to stir up religious hatred as it is to stir up racial hatred?

Ken

Anonymous said...

Just realised there was a link - I had missed it!

Ken