“Rap music celebrating attacks on gays could be banned under new laws announced last night.”

MIRROR 09-10-07

"It is a measure of how far we have come in the last 10 years that we are now appalled by hatred directed at people on the basis of sexuality.

"It is time for the law to recognise this."

JACK STRAW (SAME)

Mr Straw said he would consider whether protection should be extended to transgendered and disabled people.

GUARDIAN

Mr Straw said he would listen to views on whether the law should be extended to cover the disabled.

MIRROR (WHAT’S MISSING?)

Children who call their classmates “gay” risk being arrested for committing a hate crime even if they do not know what the word means, a leading charity warned last night.

TELEGRAPH

…existing prohibitions against race and religious incitement would be extended to cover ''homo-phobic" behavior (sic).

TELEGRAPH

they are acting like old commissars of some Eastern bloc regime or a bunch of Victorian moral puritans, clamping down on politically incorrect words.

CHRISTOPHER BIGGINS (YES) IN THE DAILY MAIL

VICARS could face up to seven years in jail for simply preaching from the Bible under Government plans to criminalise incitement of homosexual hatred.

EXPRESS