Monday, August 28, 2006

Making the sign of the cross a criminal offence in Scotland!

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The Catholic Church has condemned the cautioning of a Polish footballer for gestures which allegedly included blessing himself at an Old Firm match.

Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc was cautioned after complaints were made about his behaviour at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow in front of Ranger's fans Footballer gets criminal record for making sign of the cross

Player caution 'not for blessing'
Mark Alexander

2 comments:

Eleanor © said...

This is an infringment on free speech hether or not this was inspired by fear of offending Muslims or as a vuolating of some law.

An absurdity if this is an application of the hate-speech law.

Mark said...

Eleanor:

I agree.

It seems that they are now trying to worm their way out of it, though.