Family First today is highlighting the findings of a new poll (which it commissioned) that gauged public opinion on so-called hate speech.
The poll found just one in ten New Zealanders think it should be a crime
- to publicly claim that gender is revealed at birth and is not a matter of personal identity, or
- to publicly state that marriage is between a man and a woman only.
Family First – and all other critics of the government’s readiness to further crimp our liberties – should make much of the judges’ landmark ruling in the British case of a mother who called a trans woman “he” on Twitter.
The judges said:
‘Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having.’
But the government in this country is under pressure from several quarters to deliver on its promise to tighten the laws on “hate speech”, further requiring Kiwis to watch what…
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