[Stoat]

Will Heterophobic commentary bring similar punishments?

I won't waste a lot of energy hoping........

[Stoat]

ping

[Baladas]

They’ll have to outlaw both the Bible and the Koran to be consistent.

[ElkGroveDan]

Unless of course the moonworshippers object.

[shankbear]

So if you called somebody a pillow biter, you could go to jail? Fudge packer? Gerbil jumper? Sissy? Nancy boy? Light in the loafers?

[Red Badger]

I fully expect Hollywood to come to his defense over this freedom of speech issue.......

[bolobaby]

Newsflash, Britian, 2026...

“Anti-Gay thoughts punishable by up to seven years in prison. Great Britian, once the most videoed country in the world, has decided to use its new thought scanners to prevent ‘hateful ideologies’ from spreading.”

[Mr. Mojo]

Sig Heil!, Brits.

[freekitty]

That is the most infantile and stupid thing I have ever heard of. When are the Brits going to get some backbone and knock their government on it’s arse.

[Mr. Mojo]

Mr Straw said: "It is a measure of how far we have come as a society in the last 10 years that we are now appalled by hatred and invective directed at people on the basis of their sexuality."

So if homos make anti-hetero comments they'll be receiving 7 years in the slam also, right Jack? Right?

Yeah, didn't think so.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

The natural outcome of big brother, big sister setting the status quo is for devolution into local justice. Britain will turn to tribalism for justice. When the amoral Romans took up hedonistic orgies, tribes moved in and took over. Europe was happy to live under medieval justice and the church for a 1000 years just to have peace of mind.

[NeoCaveman]

Somehow I find something funny about sending the “homophobic” to prison.....

[AU72]

So a Brit would have to think twice before he said, “I’m going out to smoke some fags”.

[longtermmemmory]

england will soon make homosexuality mandatory.

[VOA]

“Will Heterophobic commentary bring similar punishments?”

Not a pray of a chance of that.

I endured most of my graduate school years, often hearing a gay grad
student nearly spit the term “D-MNED BREEDERS!”

Actually, this exercise of free speech was a good thing.
I realized that the guy was a jerk.
Not because he was gay.
But just because he was a complete and total jerk.

[ApplegateRanch]

Mr Straw said: "It is a measure of how far we have come as a society in the last 10 years that we are now appalled by hatred and invective directed at people on the basis of their sexuality.

Mr Straw added, "...and if I were a pansy-arsed copper, I would definitely rather tackle a bewildered dog-collared priest for saying unkind things, than take on a hardened thug with a switchblade and ax. A thug will only kill his victim; a name caller can scar an entire community for life!"

Sir, in the past 10 years, your society has come a long way down Regress Street, after taking the wrong exit at the Civilization Traffic Circle. Nothing to be proud of.

[Tennessee Nana]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

It was Jack Straw who suggested that the moslem women not cover their faces when they had a meeting with him...

What came of that?

[snarks_when_bored]

There is no group, however small, that would not welcome—and nowadays will not agitate for—immunity from criticism and ridicule. Jack Straw and his speech-freezing lackeys ought to go whole hog and mandate that muzzles be used by all Britishers when walking about in public.

[Regulator]

So, that's the end of the once proud British.

That place is dead.

The Muslims will pick the corpse.

[Centurion2000]

Doesn’t the queen have the power to dissolve Parliament for this kind of idiocy?

[Argus]

Evidently things on Airstrip One have gone from bad to doubleplusungood.