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Old 23-04-2011, 16:27   #255
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Re: Gay couple claim they were ejected from pub for kissing

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Originally Posted by Mr Angry View Post
Context Chris, context.
I agree completely - this is the point I have been trying to make. Karrington asserted earlier that making certain statements was simply 'unlawful', without any qualification at all. My position is that it plainly is not unlawful in any absolute sense. There is a defence, explicitly stated in the Act right alongside the offence itself.

It is for the courts to weigh up the defence in each case, but a defence there most certainly is, and I am quite sure it is not limited to preachers with Bibles (or any other religious text for that matter).
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