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This whole story is fundamentally wrong.

1) When all ideas are discussed openly, bad ones can be knocked down. Giving bad ones (not that I am taking a side here) a ban gives them power because it also protects them from refutation along with validating them.

2) Once you start drawing a line, they tend to spontaneously acquire the ability to move. Scary stuff.

3) Without an easy/clear/universal definition of what is hateful, you run into more difficulties.

Something I found that snuck under the radar:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/8549613.stm

Turns out an atheist protestor got the same charge, but ended up with a suspended 6 month jail term, 100 hours of unpaid work and a £250 fine. Basically a much larger punishment (the preacher got the fine), but no one heard about it because the catholic community certainly didn't get up in arms about it.

The government is at least keeping their silly law consistent, I suppose...

Because the vatican got involved with the airport case.