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Some of the country’s leading secularists and agnostics have joined forces with a group of conservative Christians to defend free speech.

 

The Christian Institute and the National Secular Society have formed an alliance to fight the expected introduction of Extremism Disruption Orders next year.

 

They fear the “writing could be on the wall” for free speech if the orders go ahead.

 

Christian Institute director Colin Hart and NSS chief executive Keith Porteous Wood said the legislation could inadvertently turn millions of ordinary citizens into potential extremists overnight.

 

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