Member

The heart of this clause—the religious effect—should be about protests that are deliberately targeted at a particular religious community, either in its place of worship or, as a later group will determine, a school or community centre that that community uses. We need to protect people who are accessing their religious premises for proper religious purposes against those who seek to intimidate them. Again, I welcome the notion about the intention to intimidate, rather than simply that it might have the effect of intimidating. That would give very helpful clarity, but I am concerned that we do not draw this too widely.