I respect the hon. Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon (Dr. Harris) greatly, but he was somewhat unfair on the Government, so I must put the record straight. He said that the Government could not cite a single example, but the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, the hon. Member for Slough (Fiona Mactaggart), gave me an example. She said that a group in her constituency had been accused of using sex to recruit members and that someone had attacked it on that basis. She told me that the group would have been protected by the Bill. However, surely one should be allowed to attack groups—they are often such things as cults—that use sex to recruit members. That shows the problem with the Bill, as was pointed out earlier.
Racial and Religious Hatred Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Edward Leigh
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 31 January 2006.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Racial and Religious Hatred Bill 2005-06.
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