(January 29, 2015 at 12:36 am)Eager Mind Wrote: Hate speech. Acts that do signifficant physical and or emotional harm. Discrimination in the work place. Discrimination amongst peers. Sectarianism, propaganda, propping up of the "intelligentsia."Acts that do physical harm and workplace discrimination are already against the law. You'll need to explain what sorts of hate speech towards religion you feel should be curtailed, and what you mean by discrimination amongst peers.
I'd be wary of calling for laws against propaganda and propping up of ideologies if you are a religious person.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
