Reply #22: There are Christian Identity churches in this country that teach that

[RaleighNCDUer]

non-whites are "mud people" and Jews are descended from Satan. And they are given protections under our constitution to say such things.

Britain does not have a constitution, but it does have a body of law going back centuries guaranteeing the right to worship and freedom of speech. Anybody to takes action based on these teachings can be arrested and feel the full weight of the law, but if they are just teaching it they have the protection of the state.

The other option is to throw over the laws protecting free speech and religious expression, and return to the religious civil wars that wracked Britain 400 years ago, and Ireland in the last century.

Freedom of speech and freedom of worship does not apply only to those who you agree with. It even applies to the religiously insane, whether it's Mullah Omar or Jerry Falwell or Tom Cruise.