The Scottish Government has passed its controversial Hate Crime Bill despite concerns being raised over its impact on freedom of speech. The new legislation creates a criminal offence of “stirring up hatred” against protected groups, on the grounds of religion, sexual orientation, age, disability and transgender identity. It expands on a similar race crime law …
Category «Same-Sex Marriage»
Letter – It’s not just religious people who oppose calling same-sex union ‘marriage’
SIR – Lynne Featherstone, the equalities minister, seems to think that only religious groups object to the Government’s proposal to change the legal definition of marriage (Commentary, February 25). In fact, the current definition of marriage, as the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others, is …
Letter – Marriage under threat
Yvette Cooper (12 October) shows how the debate over same-sex marriage is threatening to change the meaning of marriage in more ways than one. Marriage is defined in law as the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others, yet twice in her article Ms Cooper reduces …