Interesting piece (and one quoting me) from the Catholic news service Zenit on the growing trend toward labeling the expression of the traditional (negative) Christian view of homosexual conduct “hate speech.” This is a particularly serious issue outside the United States where, in the absence of the First Amendment and the protections it currently provides Americans, hate speech can be prosecuted as a criminal offense. You have seen some of the stories reported in the Zenit piece on this blog, but I don’t think they have been pulled together in one place elsewhere (although it does leave out the story of the newspaper and advertiser fined in Canada for running an ad that conveyed the message that the Bible condemns homosexual acts by quoting passages from the Bible, with an equal sign placed between the verse references and a drawing of two males holding hands overlaid with the universal nullification symbol—a red circle with a diagonal bar.)
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