Britain finds cross-party support for decriminalizing saying ‘homosexuality is sinful’
When Dale Mcalpine was arrested and charged for saying that homosexual activity is sinful in April last year, the charges were eventually dropped , but the Christian street preacher called for changes to the law that would make it possible to express religious opinion out loud in Britain without fear of arrest and prosecution. Now there is a cross-party support for a change in the law that would remove a single word from the Public Order Act 1986 that has allowed Christians to be arrested when they offend the sensibilities of homosexual activists. The amendment, that proposes to remove the word “insulting” from Section 5 of the Act, was tabled by Conservative MP Edward Leigh and is backed by the Liberal Democrat president, Tim Farron , and the Labour party’s Tom Watson, a former Government Minister . Six more MPs from across the parties have signed. As with many recently installed “hate speech” laws around the western world, the act of saying something that could be dee...