General Article Atheists and asbos: what price offence?

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Ophelia Benson: the right to believe doesn’t mean the right not to be offended

Harry Taylor left some cartoons or leaflets in a ‘prayer room’ at a municipal airport, and for this non-crime he was convicted of ‘causing religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress.’ He was sentenced to six months in jail suspended for two years, 100 hours of unpaid work, £250 in court costs, and an anti-social behaviour order banning him from carrying religiously offensive material in a public place.
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