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	<title>The Christian Institute &#187; Free speech clause</title>
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		<title>Video: free speech win in gay hate law</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Government has today accepted Lord Waddington’s free speech clause which underlines the fact that criticising homosexual conduct is not, in itself, a crime. Lord Waddington: free speech is worth fighting for It means the Government&#8217;s sexual orientation hatred law includes a protection for the free speech of those who wish to express their beliefs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free speech shield must be kept in law say MP and Peer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Conservative Peer and Labour MP have joined forces in writing to The Times calling for the free speech shield to be preserved in the ‘homophobic hatred’ law. Lord Waddington and David Taylor MP expressed concern at a Government move to strike out the free speech protection clause. Their letter says: “The politically motivated trampling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>C4 News calls Pauline Howe&#8217;s letter a crime</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Judge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Channel 4 News last night called a Christian grandmother who objected to a gay pride parade a criminal on the same spectrum as the killers of a gay man in Trafalgar Square. Watch the remark The case of Pauline Howe, 67, hit the headlines on Sunday because her letter of complaint was investigated by police [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media outrage over police probe of Christian granny</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/media-outrage-over-police-probe-of-christian-granny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Judge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The case of Pauline Howe, the Christian grandmother investigated by police for objecting to a gay pride parade, has provoked strong debate in the media. ITV Anglia News report featuring the Institute&#8217;s Mike Judge It featured on ITV’s Anglia News last night with an organiser of the gay pride march supporting the police action because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: police quiz Christian pensioner over gay beliefs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Judge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Christian pensioner was verbally abused at a gay pride parade but when she complained to her local council, the police investigated her for ‘homophobic hatred’. Mrs Howe speaks of her shock at being visited by the police Mrs Pauline Howe, 67, says she was the victim of a number of sexually explicit verbal attacks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lord Waddington: Free speech is not hateful</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Wylie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We risk criminalising the innocent if we remove a free speech shield from the ‘homophobic hatred’ law, a former Home Secretary has said. Lord Waddington, writing for the Guardian website, says “Civil liberty surely implies the freedom to express your own views, and with it a readiness to defend the right of others to express [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top cop: free speech clause                   in ‘gay hate’ law is essential</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/top-cop-free-speech-clause-in-gay-hate-law-is-essential/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/top-cop-free-speech-clause-in-gay-hate-law-is-essential/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Jess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Removing free speech protection from a &#8216;homophobic incitement&#8217; law will put the police in a &#8220;virtual straitjacket&#8221;, says a former chief constable. Lord Dear, who is also a former HM Inspector of Constabulary, said the free speech protection is “essential” if police officers are to enforce the Government’s ‘homophobic hatred’ law with “good judgment and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gay activist welcomes Lords free speech win</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/gay-activist-welcomes-lords-free-speech-win/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Leung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A leading ‘gay rights’ campaigner has welcomed the decision of the House of Lords to keep a free speech protection in a controversial ‘gay hatred’ law. Peter Tatchell was commenting after the House of Lords voted to reject a Government bid to remove the free speech protection. The protection makes clear that under the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lords back free speech shield in &#8216;gay hate&#8217; law</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/lords-back-free-speech-shield-in-gay-hate-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/lords-back-free-speech-shield-in-gay-hate-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Government has been defeated in the House of Lords over its attempt to repeal a free speech protection from a sexual orientation ‘hatred’ law. Peers voted by 186 to 133 to keep the protection in place. The matter will be passed back to the House of Commons where MPs voted for repeal. Should the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free speech vote in the House of Lords</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House of Lords will vote today on whether a free speech protection should be removed from a controversial law on inciting homophobic hatred. Should the free speech protection be removed? Listen to the issue being debated on BBC Radio 5 Live. The protection makes it clear that criticising homosexual practice or urging people to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Morally bankrupt MPs still pushing bad laws&#8217;</title>
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		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/morally-bankrupt-mps-still-pushing-bad-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the expenses scandal MPs lack the moral authority to keep pushing measures such as the removal of a free speech shield from a ‘hate speech’ law, an Observer writer has said. Writing on his Observer blog on Monday, commentator and author Henry Porter asked: “When laws are voted in by MPs who have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free speech debated in the House of Lords</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 16:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Leung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of the House of Lords last night criticised the Government’s bid to remove a free speech shield from the controversial ‘homophobic hatred’ offence. The free speech protection makes clear that disagreeing with homosexual practice is not in itself a crime. It was added to the new offence last May, but the Government and ‘gay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MPs reject &#8216;gay hatred&#8217;     free speech safeguard</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/mps-reject-gay-hatred-free-speech-safeguard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/mps-reject-gay-hatred-free-speech-safeguard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Jess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MPs last night voted against keeping a free speech protection in the ‘homophobic hatred’ offence by 328 votes to 174. The matter will pass to the Lords where a much closer battle is expected. The earliest opportunity for a Lords vote will probably be May. In the Commons last night supporters of free speech included [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gay comic slams incitement law</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/gay-comic-slams-incitement-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A homosexual comedian, Christopher Biggins, has condemned the new offence of incitement to homophobic hatred as an attack on free speech. The offence was passed by Parliament last year, with the inclusion of a free speech protection making clear that disagreement with homosexual practice would not be caught. However, the Government is now attempting to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV star says defend free speech in &#8216;gay hate&#8217; law</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/tv-star-says-defend-free-speech-in-gay-hate-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Leung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The comedian Rowan Atkinson has urged the House of Lords to vote against a Government attempt to delete a free speech protection from a ‘homophobic hatred’ offence. The Government is using the Coroners and Justice Bill to delete the protection added by Parliament in May last year. Mr Atkinson was speaking at a meeting on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Tory: &#8216;thought police&#8217; are squeezing Christians</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/top-tory-thought-police-are-squeezing-christians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[British Christians are among those suffering under divisive politically correct values imposed by the state, a senior Conservative has said. In a speech given last night at Queen Mary, University of London, shadow justice secretary Dominic Grieve called for common sense to replace policies which undermine individual freedoms. He referred to the recent high profile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ban on criticising gay sex &#8216;is attack on civil liberty&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Government is attacking civil liberty by attempting to remove a free speech protection from a law on ‘inciting homophobic hatred’, says a new report. The report was produced by University College London (UCL) in collaboration with a new campaign against the erosion of civil freedoms. The campaign is backed by the Guardian newspaper, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ministers determined to crush free speech guard</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Government will plough ahead with plans to remove a free speech law which highlights the right of people to express their views on homosexual practice, ministers said yesterday. But other MPs, including one from the Labour benches, urged the Government to keep the safeguard which clarifies that disagreement is not the same thing as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MPs debate Bill which threatens free speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MPs will today debate a justice Bill which contains plans to delete a free speech protection added last year to a controversial ‘gay hate’ law. The free speech protection was added last May to the new offence of ‘incitement to homophobic hatred’ after a late night victory in the House of Lords. It makes it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government bid to kill free speech protection</title>
		<link>http://www.christian.org.uk/news/government-bid-to-kill-free-speech-protection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Government is planning to overturn a crucial free speech protection added last year to a controversial &#8216;gay hate&#8217; law. The free speech protection was added last May to the new offence of ‘incitement to homophobic hatred’ after a late night victory in the House of Lords. It makes it clear that criticising homosexual practice [...]]]></description>
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