The new proposed law in Ireland will criminalise Catholicsfor their beliefs, writes Dubhaltach O Reachtnin
Last week in Ireland proposed legislation was put forward to create a new crime under Irish law: "hate speech". Under the new law, "a person shall be guilty of an offence if "(a) the person— (i) communicates material to the public or a section of the public, or (ii) behaves in a public place in a manner, that is likely to incite violence or hatred against a person or a group of persons on account of their protected characteristics or any of those characteristics, and (b) does so with intent to incite violence or hatred against such a person or group of persons on account of those characteristics
