Vatican tells UN that critics of gays under attack

[Cardiganwearer]

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Public Order Act 1986
Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
Crime and Disorder Act 1998
Amendment to Crime and Disorder Act 1998

All in UK are against speech against gays. So let me put it other terms, if in UK or Norway a priest speaks out against racial groups or other sexual orientations, then they will be jailed for "Inciting racial or religious hatred". Putting priests in jail helps gay causes? Not to me.

You've got me bang to rights, we do have laws prohibiting freedom of speech, who'd have guessed? I'll confine myself to the UK, since Europe is by no means homogenous. First of all no priests have been put in jail, there have been a few prosecutions resulting in fines and anti social behaviour orders.

People are free to disseminate this
A strange, lonely and troubling death . . . | Mail Online
and this
Gayness mandatory in schools: Gay victims of prejudice to become new McCarthyites | Mail Online
both of which are hate-filled attacks on gay people masquerading as journalism. Neither advocates violence so the authors get away with it.

I appreciate that you think highly of a constitutional right to free speech but it guarantees nothing, much of the rest of the world gets by without a contitutional right but with plenty of free speech going on.

I am still unclear about how such a right or it's supression has anything to do with what a representative of the Vatican has said in a public forum. The Vatican has rightly been criticised for it, freedom of speech has not been curtailed at all.