Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
11:00 pm
Lord Elton (Conservative)
My Lords, perhaps I may beg the Minister to have in mind that the object of his legislation, as I understand it, is to take out the heat of the encounters between people with different views about sexual orientation. Where there is an entirely disproportionate reaction to criticism by one group of another of the sort we have heard from my noble friend Lord Waddington and from the noble Lord, Lord Clarke of Hampstead, will he pause to think what effect that is going to have on relations between the two groups in question? It must exacerbate them and therefore in order to achieve the policy objectives which the Minister has in bringing this before Parliament, there must surely be a clause such as my noble friend has devised to prevent that happening.
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david skinner
Posted on 22 Apr 2008 11:44 pm (Report this annotation)
Quite so, this oppressive and self - serving piece of legislation that is the brain - child of Ben Summerskill will in fact do precisely the opposite of what it intends. Bullies are attracted to those who are different, have some kind human weakness. This Bill will in fact make criminal ordinary, law abiding people whilst putting the homosexual at risk from those lawless elements who are bound to build up a smouldering resentment towards those who are given preferential protections.