Secular Café: House of Lords gets it right, with the aid of strange bedfellows

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House of Lords gets it right, with the aid of strange bedfellows Dec 13th 2012, 15:42 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...lting-language Quote: The House of Lords on Wednesday night voted to remove a law that criminalises the use of insulting language in Britain. The upper chamber voted to erase the word "insulting" from the clause in the Public Order Act that covers speech and writing on signs which states "a person is guilty of an offence if he uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour." http://conservativehome.blogs.com/pl...n-calvert.html Quote: Keith Porteous Wood and Simon Calvert: The Lords will vote on Wednesday* on a vital issue of free speech Keith Porteous Wood is Executive Director of the National Secular Society. Simon Calvert is Deputy Director for Public Affairs at The Christian Institute. Reform Section 5 is a joint campaign initiative of The National Secular Society and The Christian Institute. Reports are that many in the Commons are sympathetic. David

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