Saturday, January 20, 2007

No Criticism of Homosexuality Allowed?

The latest attack on free speech about homosexuality is from Australia:

"Tasmania's Anti-Discrimination Tribunal has ruled that the Liberal Party should be investigated over a pamphlet it authorised during last year's state election.
The document attacked the Greens' policy allowing same-sex marriage as "socially destructive",

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So "socially destructive" is hate-speech? The Liberal Party is Australia'as major conservative party. In Australia, liberals really do believe in liberty, unlike the USA.

The complaint is most unlikely to succeed as the High Court of Australia has recently ruled that Australians do have a constitutional right of free speech in political matters.

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