Schedule - Hatred against persons on racial or religious grounds
Racial and Religious Hatred Bill
12:30 pm
Chris Bryant (Rhondda, Labour)
The hon. Gentleman talks of intense dislike. His argument is that the Oxford English dictionary maintains that hatred is intense dislike or enmity, but he has left out of his analysis the word “enmity”, which seems to me to take us rather further than just intense dislike. The only use of the word “enmity” that I remember is in the King James version of the Bible, which says that there shall be enmity between the serpent and Eve. The hon. Gentleman may now choose to use that as another argument against Satanists, but my point is that enmity takes us further. It is about sustained and not necessarily violent but certainly aggressive hatred.