The Crime of Leafleting

by Charles C. W. Cooke
National Review Online
January 13, 2012

https://www.legal-project.org/2050/the-crime-of-leafleting

Excerpt:

In Britain, five Muslim men from the East Midlands city of Derby have been put on trial for the composition and distribution of leaflets. The literature — entitled "The Death Penalty?" — contends that gay sex is a sin that leads its practitioners directly to hell; it also calls for homosexuals to be given the death penalty and features on its front side a picture of a mannequin hanging from a noose. The prosecution is the first under a new "hate crime" law passed in March 2010 that makes it illegal to "stir up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation."

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