Quoting a passage from a religious text such as the Bible could become a crime under new proposals put forward in Canada.
Current Canadian hate crimes laws contain a clause which protects people who make statements in ‘good faith’ based ‘on belief in a religious text’.
But lawmakers have put forward plans to remove that defence, opening up Christians and people of other faiths to potential prosecution. The proposals are backed by Minister of Justice Sean Fraser and the Bloc Québécois party.
