Agreed PolicyConstitutional, Religious and Moral Order
Blasphemy and Sacrilege
Unbelief, criticism and theological argument remain lawful. Deliberate desecration of the sacred may be prohibited.
Policy catalogueGovernment, Justice and Public Order
Agreed PolicyFree Speech and Public Doctrine
Broad political and academic discussion is protected; speech that directly incites violence, terrorism or criminal conduct is not.
Position
Restore Europe supports broad political and academic discussion, but does not treat speech as unlimited where it directly incites violence, terrorism or criminal conduct, or amounts to deliberate profanation of the sacred.
Policy
- Criticism of government remains lawful.
- Political and theological disagreement remains lawful.
- Communism, secularism and liberalism may be discussed and argued for by individuals, even though they do not define the constitutional order.
- Direct incitement to violence or terrorism may be prohibited.
- Pornography remains prohibited under separate policy.
- Deliberate sacrilege may be restricted under the blasphemy policy.
Principle
A confessional constitutional order need not become a system of thought-policing.
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- Agreed PolicyEducation, Culture and Public Life
Universities and Academic Freedom
Universities should retain genuine academic freedom while ceasing to operate as institutions of compulsory ideological propagation.
- Agreed PolicyConstitutional, Religious and Moral Order
Pornography
Restore Europe supports the complete legal prohibition of pornography.
- Manifesto CoreGovernment, Justice and Public Order
Authority, Democracy and Subsidiarity
Power should be exercised at the lowest competent level. Elections, representation and constitutional limits coexist with a rejection of philosophical liberalism.
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