Saturday, 24 April 2010

Mocking the religious: a right?

Harry Taylor, an avowed atheist, placed leaflets offensive to religious people in an airport's prayer room. As a result, Harry has been convicted of religiously-aggravated harassment, given a six month suspended sentence and an ASBO.

I want to consider a couple of issues: firstly, were his actions defensible? Secondly, is his conviction defensible? Finally, was the sentence defensible?