[vertex-four]

Preaching against homosexuality is definitely not illegal across the EU. There's a group of people doing it on the streets at every damn Pride event in the UK - at quite some expense to the taxpayer too, since they wind up having a number of police officers stationed near them.

If you were to read, well, any source posted since then, you'd find that it was found that he was actually protected on appeal by the ECHR freedom of expression (aka freedom of speech) and freedom of religion.

[philh]

> There's a group of people doing it on the streets at every damn Pride event in the UK - at quite some expense to the taxpayer too, since they wind up having a number of police officers stationed near them.

Not that this is false (I have no knowledge either way), but... spinning it this way, like people are to blame for the costs of protecting them from violent retaliation against their speech, feels distasteful to me.

[vertex-four]

Ah, I didn't mean it that way - I merely meant that this is something that the country explicitly puts resources towards protecting, not something that it "puts up with", as a direct rebuttal of the argument that the EU as a whole is strongly against the rights to expression and religion.

[philh]

Fair enough, I appreciate the clarification.