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Racial and Religious Hatred Bill

As my hon. Friend says, under the Bill, we would not be able to call them bigots. If the Government’s assurances are taken at face value, there would be no prosecutions of people making such assertions because their doing so would be covered by their freedom of religious expression. On the basis of religion, which is a matter of choice, it seems that it is all right to incite hatred of someone else for something over which they have no choice. That problem has not been adequately dealt with.