I accept the noble Baroness’s point. I said in my preliminary remarks that there is a difference. However, my key point is that legislation has generated vexatious actions. Such legislation will be inciteful: it will generate from different groups complaints against other groups. It will create sectarianism where perhaps none existed hitherto. That is the real danger of this kind of legislation.
Racial and Religious Hatred Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Alton of Liverpool
(Crossbench)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 25 October 2005.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Racial and Religious Hatred Bill.
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