Ivison: How I changed my mind about Liberals ending religious exemptions for hate speech

John Ivison: (Conservative MP Roman) Baber’s impassioned performance at the justice committee made the case that stripping the religious defence was more likely to criminalize faith than combat hate.

He pointed out that the religious defence has never been used to acquit a defendant accused of public incitement of hatred. “When we start going down the road of criminalizing more and more speech, we kill free speech,” he said…