As a English ex-pat - well, if ‘feelings’ are now the subject of CRIMES the UK is done. I suppose the reasons the USA was born still persist...either they do something about it or they deserve it.
“Feelings” as evidence was drove the Salem witch trials. Some rotten little pubescent girl testifies that while passing Goody Biddle’s cottage, she felt a tingling sensation, and then she fell and sprained her ankles, so that proved that Goody Biddle was a witch, and if Goody Biddle scoffed at this from the witness stand, and refused to repent, and had a strange birthmark on her back, she’s convicted and hung.
After one year of this insanity, the Salem courts stopped consideration “feelings” as evidence, and that was the end of the witch trials.