Pastors Guilty of not being funny

I had not hear much about the trial of two pastors for vilification.  Andrew Bolt covers if off in this post on his blog.  It is amazing what has occurred!

"The finding against two Catch the Fire pastors is a deeply disturbing glimpse into Victoria’s politically correct future.
HOW odd that a Christian pastor has been found guilty of vilifying Islam after quoting the Koran.
Is this really what Premier Steve Bracks intended with his absurd racial and religious vilification law?
Pastor Daniel Scot and Pastor Danny Nalliah were last week found to have committed religious vilification after the first trial under this new law.
Judge Michael Higgins found Scot offended by quoting the Koran in a way that got ``a response from the audience at various times in the form of laughter’’.
Yes, Scot made his audience of 250 Christians laugh at Islam. He didn’t inspire them to burn a mosque, shout insults at Muslims, plant bombs or paint nasty slogans on fences.
He just made the audience laugh. And that in Victoria is now a crime.
But that’s not the only absurdity in a case that has so far cost these two pastors more than $200,000 in costs.
The absurdities start with the excuse the Premier gave in 2001 for imposing this law, threatening us with six months’ jail and $6000 fines.
``Victorians take considerable pride in the fact that people from . . . diverse backgrounds live together harmoniously in our community,’’ he told Parliament.
Yet even though we got on well, we now had to limit our free speech—despite Bracks conceding ``freedom of expression is crucial to our democratic society’’.
Publicly saying hurtful things about a race or religion would now be illegal.
Fear not, Bracks soothed. This law was ``confined to prohibit only the most noxious forms of conduct’’, and would ``promote racial and religious tolerance’’.
But it wasn’t and hasn’t.
With a new law to play with, it was inevitable activists would try to use it."

Click the link below to read the whole post by Andrew Bolt.

Link to Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog