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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Racial and Religious Hatred Bill</title>
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		<title>Government suffers chaotic double defeat over bill to combat religious hatred</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government last night suffered a chaotic defeat over its bill to combat religious hatred when a lethal mixture of Labour rebels, abstentions and absentees from Westminster delivered an unexpected triumph to the combined Opposition in both Lords and Commons.
Though the racial and religious hatred bill came from Charles Clarke&#8217;s Home Office team, and some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ministers lose religious bill bid</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government has suffered two shock defeats over attempts to overturn Lords changes to the controversial Racial and Religious Hatred Bill.
In a blow to Tony Blair&#8217;s authority, MPs voted by 288 votes to 278 to back a key Lords amendment to the bill, which targets incitement to religious hatred.
The prime minister voted in the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rowan Atkinson speech: &#8216;Every joke has a victim&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comedian Rowan Atkinson today urged the government to back down over its religious hatred bill and accept changes made by peers to strengthen the right of performers to criticise religion. Here is the full text of his speech

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for coming. I am sorry that it&#8217;s that Luvvie again whingeing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religious bill attacks free speech, says Atkinson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The comedian Rowan Atkinson today urged the government to compromise on its controversial religious hatred bill and to accept changes made by peers that strengthen the rights of performers to criticise religion.
The comedian, famous for his roles as Mr Bean and Blackadder, expressed his frustration at the government for refusing to so far back down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&#038;A: Religious hatred law</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Government proposals for a law on religious hatred are complicated - and are facing a tough time in Parliament.

What is the government proposing?
The government says it wants to extend protection to people so they cannot be harmed because of their religious beliefs.
The proposals include some subtle and complex arguments but boil down to whether society [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New religious hate plans unveiled</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/13404/new-religious-hate-plans-unveiled</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Compromise plans to create a new offence of incitement to religious hatred while protecting free speech have been unveiled by ministers.
The government&#8217;s original plans for the new offence were heavily defeated in the House of Lords last year.
Critics said the proposed legislation was drawn too widely and could outlaw criticisms of beliefs.
Ministers have now published [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religious hatred Bill hits buffers after Lords defeat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ministers sounded a retreat on their plans for a contentious new law to outlaw incitement to religious hatred last night as the Lords inflicted a crushing defeat by throwing out the Bill.
Peers voted by 260 to 111 to tear up the Racial and Religious Hatred Bill and replace it completely with text that severely limited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ripe for ridicule</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Prime Minister’s ill-conceived attempt to criminalise incitement to “religious hatred” has received a lifeline that he would be well advised to grasp. A series of amendments to be debated in the House of Lords tomorrow could yet rescue the Bill from some of its inherent flaws. If ministers refuse to accept them, however, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Witches see an opportunity in new hate bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government faces new embarrassment over the religious hatred bill with a warning that witches and satanists could use it to trigger police investigations of their critics.
The Racial and Religious Hatred Bill, now passing through parliament, has been used by Labour to bolster support among Muslims. Charles Clarke, the home secretary, says the bill is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In full: Rowan Atkinson speech on hate Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen
Those of us who have opposed this measure since its introduction in 2001 have never had a problem with its alleged intent, viz. to counter the expression of racial hatred under the disguise of religious hatred. Rather, our problem was always the legislation’s breathtaking scope and reach far beyond that intent.
The [...]]]></description>
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