Thursday, April 29, 2010

THE RIGHT TO BELIEVE DOESN’T MEAN THE RIGHT NOT TO BE OFFENDED

Harry Taylor left some cartoons or leaflets in a “prayer room” at a municipal airport, and for this non-crime he was convicted of “causing religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress.” He was sentenced to six months in jail suspended for two years, 100 hours of unpaid work, £250 in court costs, and an anti-social behaviour order banning him from carrying religiously offensive material in a public place.

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