Freedom of Speech - opportunity

The government has announced a consultation on whether to change the wording of Section 5 of the Public Order Act so that it will no longer be an offence to use "insulting" language.

Whilst no Christian should ever set out to insult people the range of things people may find to be insulting is highly subjective and open to abuse by those wishing to close down freedom of speech. All sorts of civil liberties groups support change.

I've written before about cases in which Christians can get a bit carried away with a persecution complex (see, for example, this post)  but protecting freedom of speech is, I think, by far the most important political campaign that Christians can be involved in: without freedom of speech there won't be any space in our society for the gospel or, perhaps, for anything else Christians want to talk about but ruling elites don't.

The Christian Institute provides a helpful guide on what you can do on this issue, here.