Jack Straw has announced new plans to make inciting hatred against gay people a crime.
A recent YouGov poll, by Stonewall, found that 89% of people would support such a move. The full report from Stonewall, "Living Together," can be found here.
Stonewall welcomed the announcement, with chief executive Ben Summerskill saying: "A new offence will help deter extremists who stir up hatred against lesbian and gay people ... We refuse to accept any longer that there's no connection between extreme rap lyrics calling for gay people to be attacked or fundamentalist claims that all gay people are paedophiles, and the epidemic of anti-gay violence disfiguring Britain's streets."
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