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Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

My Lords, I support very much what has just been said, and I want to point out to the noble Lord, Lord Thomas, that we are not talking about those cases only when they get to court. The fact is that one man wrote to me when all he had tried to do was to distribute perfectly innocuous letters asking whether people would come to the Easter service. He got a call from two policemen, and was followed up again because there had been complaints from a homosexual supporter that there was something wrong in that way about the leaflet. There was not, but much upset was caused to that man’s family—and to his neighbours, who thought that he had created some terrible fault and done something wrong. It is not just when we get to court. Can we not protect people who simply want to get their friends and neighbours to come to a church service?