The British Humanist Association (BHA) has called the ruling «completely ridiculous», and argued that the ASA is «chilling the free mockery of beliefs which is
vital in a free society».
The ASA have shown themselves to be absurdly hypersensitive to the possibility of religious offence and are chilling the free mockery of all beliefs which is
vital in a free society.
Not exact matches
In the government press release announcing the new schools, Morgan said: «The
free schools programme is proving to be a
vital outlet for our
society's most creative and innovative people to spread their excellence to future generations.»
With a nod to Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court's 1954 decision banning state - imposed racial segregation
in schools, the Rodriguez court recognized «the
vital role of education
in a
free society.»
Researchers and leaders for social justice, then, seek to define the theories and practices of leadership that are
vital to creating greater freedom, opportunity, and justice for all citizens — citizens who, through public education, are better able to participate
in and sustain a
free, civil, multicultural, and democratic
society.
More often than not, the light signifies no more than a turning or a twist or a light vent
in a tunnel, which for the vast majority of
societies in the West will seemingly never end
in the sunlight of a
vital, dynamic, and responsible system of
free speech
in the legal domain, a system that responds to the needs of a democratic
society and also responds to the protection of certain other
vital interests of the individual
in a humane
society.
Involving stakeholders across the
society in the transition to carbon -
free societies is of
vital importance to improve the quality of decision - making and strengthen compliance.
It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law
in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance
in the nature of public disorder; a law
in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law
in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the
vital rights and properties of a
free and democratic
society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law
in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression
in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law
in which the mores or standards of
society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens
in a
free and democratic
society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale
in a civil and civilised
society.