| | You can read all about this insidious Bill - and Rowan Atkinson's campaign against it - here:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1817438,00.html
And for the full transcript of Atkinson's speech to the House of Lords:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1834800,00.html
I especially liked this part: "The freedom to criticise or ridicule ideas -- even if they are sincerely held beliefs -- is a fundamental freedom and a law which says that you can ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas, is a very odd law indeed. It promotes the idea that there should be a right not to be offended, when I think that the right to offend is far more important than a right not to be offended."
(Edited by Derek McGovern on 11/07, 5:22am)
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What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked? 
