Laws are not for protecting your feelings
The trouble is “insulting” a religion could be interpreted in so many ways. Even someone saying they preferred one to the other could be taken as a slight. Abuse of such legislation would be easy and honestly, don’t our courts have better things to do?
While I advocate legislation against hate speech, jailing someone for honestly saying they dislike a religion or aspects of it is untenable.
The law wasn’t meant to protect our feelings.
When we create this bubble where everyone is afraid to speak about “too sensitive” issues we create division where there should be dialogue,
At the very least, when someone insults a faith, there should be space for people to respond, though not in a violent way.
Out there in the real world, there is no such thing as all-encompassing laws that force people into being polite.
Do we really need to police how people act, to the point where we make insults a crime?
