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Pension Credit and Personal Expense Allowance (Duty of Consultation and Review): New Clause 11 — Guidance on offences that involve hatred on grounds of sexual orientation (24 Mar 2009) has video

Dominic Grieve: ...will undoubtedly attribute to it meanings that Parliament may not have intended. I thought it worth looking at Stonewall's briefing, because I have a high regard for Stonewall and its campaign for gay rights. To support its analysis of why the new offence was needed and why it opposed the saving clause, it presented a number of examples. One involved rap lyrics expressing great hatred,...

Coroners and Justice Bill (26 Jan 2009) has video

Dominic Grieve: ...not believe that the Government want that either. Old age pensioners living in Blackpool wrote to their local authority, as is their right, to say that they did not approve of its giving money to a gay organisation. Instead of getting a reply saying, "Terribly sorry. We were voted in, and this is what we believe in. We disagree with you," they got a visit from two police officers telling...

Public Bill Committee: Equality Bill [Lords]: Clause 81 - Prohibition of discrimination (8 Dec 2005)

Dominic Grieve: ...the Minister will explain in detail why that is necessary. After all, I should have thought that any issues of national security would apply identically to people of whatever orientation, whether gay or heterosexual, and it is difficult to understand why this particular exemption should be applied. Will the Minister say, as far as she can, what internal mechanism may operate in those...

Public Bill Committee: Racial and Religious Hatred Bill: Schedule - Hatred against persons on racial or religious grounds (29 Jun 2005)

Dominic Grieve: ...saying that this crime is becoming far too prevalent and the judges,   usually of their own accord, would pass stiffer sentences. That has been going on, whether it be in the cases of Muslims, gays, women or whoever else.

Public Bill Committee: Racial and Religious Hatred Bill: Schedule - Hatred against persons on racial or religious grounds (29 Jun 2005)

Dominic Grieve: My hon. Friend is right. It is precisely that matter that troubles me, and that we must tease out. I used the example of gays or lesbians precisely because that has been one of the rather heated areas of debate in the recent past and is therefore classically illustrative of the nature of the problem. Will condemnation of gays and lesbians, for instance, lead to them saying that they are being...