Here is a post taken the FoxNews column Tongue Tied from a story reported on by the BBC:

Members of the public in Britain are accusing the Gay Police Association of a "faith crime" for publishing an advertisement that attributes rising levels of homophobic attacks to religious beliefs, according the BBC.

The advertisement, showing a Bible next to a pool of blood under the heading "in the name of the father," appeared in a diversity supplement of the British daily The Independent. It said: "In the last 12 months, the GPA has recorded a 74 percent increase in homophobic incidents, where the sole or primary motivating factor was the religious belief of the perpetrator."

Scotland Yard said it had received a complaint from a member of the public and was centering its inquiry on the question of the whether the language in the ad "constitutes a faith crime."  (bold mine)

Faith crime?  What the hell is that?  If the accusation that the rise in homophobic attacks is due to religiiously motivated reasons turns out to be untrue, then perhaps we could say slander had occurred. 

Or perhaps misinterpretation of the evidence?

But what exactly constitutes a faith crime?  That I don't believe the same things that a religious person does?

If that's the case, then I commit so-called faith crime every day.  If this is a true legal designation in the UK, then that society has succumbed to PC at a degree I find dangerous and destructive to civil liberty and free speech.

Those who are religious need to accept that just because they believe something does not mean that not only do I not have to believe in it too, but I also have the right to speak out against it.  I have the right to say what nonsense I believe it is.

Isn't that what the first amendment says?  Or have I read it wrong?

The link:  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,205196,00.html