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Baroness O'Neill, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, has warned that there is no way of securing freedom of expression and a right not to be offended.
Speaking at Inner Temple for an event held by Theos, attended by the National Secular Society, Baroness O'Neill spoke on freedom of expression and religious freedom, telling the audience that society was in a "terrible muddle about the shape that rights" to free expression and religious freedom should take.
The Baroness said that while freedom of speech and religion has taken "high importance in the contemporary world", the rights were clearly not "universally respected" – as evidenced by the "persistence of intolerance and intimidation, of outright censorship and religious persecution of those of other faiths, and in the criminalisation of apostasy in some states."
Read the full article at secularism.org.uk
The Theos Annual Lecture took place on 19 November 2015 at the Honourable Society of Inner Temple and was given by Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve, titled 'Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Religion', and was chaired by BBC Religious Affairs Correspondent Caroline Wyatt.
Read a transcript of the lecture here
