exchemist
Veteran Member
That is not my point. There is a claim being made that a specific piece of English law has been broken by someone. I am contesting that it has been.We should be allowed to insult homosexuals and the religious. Or anyone, aside from threats of violence.
However, that aside, the usual argument is that one needs to be free to disparage a belief system, just as one can criticise any other ideas (politics, philosophy, scientific theories etc), but not a group of people. Homosexuals are a group of people, not a belief system and as such are entitled to expect the law to protect them from being abused for just being members of that group.