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Daily Telegraph columnist charged with hate crime
for pro-hunting rights remark
LONDON,
- George Orwell's novel 1984 seems to be have been
off by a few decades, but not far off the mark as
to the type of totalitarian thought controls that
would eventually start to be implemented in Britain
and other developed nations.
In
Britain, Canada, the U.S. and many other western
countries, homosexuality and its practitioners are
being used, along with abortion, pornography, divorce,
feminism, etc., to undermine traditional social
and legal foundations. The purpose appears to be
to pave the way for acceptance or weak resistence
to a bold attempt at revolutionary international
social change - change that would suppress traditional
moral codes and eliminate the concept of the innate
dignity of every human person.
As
Canada is considering legislation to include 'sexual
orientation' within hate crime law, the UK Crown
Prosecution Service (CPS) has unexplainably announced
that prosecution of 'homophobic' crime is to become
a high priority. The London Telegraph reports that
in a policy document, the CPS says it regards "homophobic
and transphobic crimes as particularly serious because
they are motivated by prejudice, discrimination
and hate, and undermine people's right to feel safe
in their sexual orientation and gender".
"Homophobic",
as defined by the CPS, means "a fear of or
dislike directed towards lesbian, gay or bisexual
people, or… their perceived lifestyle, culture
or characteristics". "Transphobic"
means "a fear of or dislike towards trans people"
and "Trans people", according to the CPS,
is "a phrase which is intended to include transsexual,
transgender and transvestite people". A "transgendered"
person is someone "whose biological gender
is not the same as the gender they own as theirs".
The
CPS defines cases with a 'homophobic' element as
one including "any incident which is perceived
to be homophobic or transphobic by the victim or
by any other person".
Roger
Daw, Chief Crown Prosecutor for Hampshire and the
CPS board member responsible for developing the
new policy explained "What it is saying is
that people should not be able to get away with
voicing inflammatory or discriminatory views in
a public environment where the law has the ability
to protect those who are the inadvertent and innocent
victims of such prejudice."
Hillary
White of Campaign Life Catholic commented on the
policy saying, "If, in the UK it can be proved
that a priest said in the pulpit that homosexual
acts are gravely sinful and could result in eternity
in hell, would this constitute 'voicing inflammatory
or discriminatory views in a public environment'?"
White concluded, "I think this is a question
that is rather relevant considering the status of
our own pending legislation (Bill C-250)."
In
related news, the Telegraph reports that Commander
Cressida Dick, head of Scotland Yard's Diversity
Unit, has launched a campaign this month urging
victims of "hate crime" to come forward.
Hate crime for Scotland Yard's purposes being defined
as "abusing people because of their race, faith,
religion or disability - or because they are lesbian,
gay, bisexual or transsexual". One of The Telegraph's
own columnists Robin Page, was arrested by police
under suspicion of hate crime. "He told a rally
in September that the rural minority in favour of
hunting should have the same rights as blacks, Muslims
and gays," reports the paper.
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