Re: Praying at Home Could Be a Criminal Offense in Scotland Under New law

On 2024-11-23 10:37 AM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Nov 23, 2024 at 4:53:13 AM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
 

On 2024-11-23 1:58 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

  BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
 

  Scotland has enacted new abortion legislation that could criminalize praying
  at home within designated zones. The Abortion Services Act (Scotland) 2024
  could result in prosecution for activities conducted in their own homes if
  these actions can be seen by clinic staff or patients and cause "harassment,
  alarm, or distress" to staff and patients at abortion clinics.

 

  . . .

 

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https://www.christianpost.com/news/praying-at-home-may-be-criminal-offense-in-scotland-under-new-law.html

    The Scottish Enlightenment gave the world Adam Smith, founder of the
  economic philosophy of political economy, a major advancement of classical
  liberalism. Scotland gave us Karen Gillam, and a performance as James
  Bond by Sean Connery so powerful that ubersnob Ian Fleming retconned
  Bond's backstory as Scottish.
    What could have possibly turned the country so illiberal today?

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That was then and this is now. It is my understanding that most Scottish
seats in Parliament were Labour for quite a few years but then, when the
SNP (Scottish National Party - separatists who want Scotland to leave
the UK) revived itself, most of the seats went to the SNP which was
decidedly "progressive" and woke. The SNP definitely took a hit after
the scandal involving Nicola Sturgeon and her husband apparently
misappropriated party funds but that STILL hasn't come before the courts
for reasons that are beyond me. Her successor, Hamza Yousef was a
Palestinian-Scot, who was appalled that so many government posts in
Scotland were held by whites

 Can you imagine going to, say, Pakistan and complaining that so many
government positions are filled with brown people?
 

That would, of course, be preposterous.
I thought it was brilliant of the Scots that when their hate crime legislation finally took effect on April 1 this year and the government solemnly promised to investigate EVERY complaint, a huge percentage of the first several thousand complaints under the law were made against Hamza Yousef with his clip complaining about white people in so many jobs being offered as their evidence!
I don't know if you've seen this but Leo Kearse did an awesome rant about the hate crime law after it had been enacted but before it was in force.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMjJ6vCZX_I [21 minutes]
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Rhino