Quote of the day 12th October 2018

“Discrimination against LGBT people is wrong. But in a free society, people should be able to discriminate against ideas that they disagree with. I am glad the court upheld this important liberal principle. 

“If the original judgement against Ashers had been upheld it would have meant that a Muslim printer could be obliged to publish cartoons of Mohammed and a Jewish printer could be forced to publish a book that propagates Holocaust denial. It could have also encouraged far right extremists to demand that bakers and other service providers facilitate the promotion of anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim opinions. 

“That would have set a dangerous, authoritarian precedent that could have been open to serious abuse. 

“Discrimination against people should be illegal but not discrimination against ideas and opinions,” 

(Peter Tatchell, responding to the Supreme Court ruling that a Baptist-run bakery could refuse to supply a cake with a message on gay marriage that they disagreed with.)

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