Tokens: Admittedly
,
the
freedom
to
proselytise
may
be
abused
,
but
the
crucial
question
is
whether
that
justifies
enacting
a
criminal
-
law
provision
generally
making
punishable
what
the
State
considers
improper
proselytism
.
There
are
at
least
two
reasons
for
answering
that
question
in
the
negative
.
The
first
is
that
the
State
,
being
bound
to
strict
neutrality
in
religious
matters
,
lacks
the
necessary
touchstone
and
therefore
should
not
set
itself
up
as
the
arbiter
for
assessing
whether
particular
religious
behaviour
is
"
proper
"
or
"
improper
"
.
The
absence
of
such
a
touchstone
can
not
be
made
good
(
as
the
Court
attempts
to
do
)
by
resorting
to
the
quasi
-
neutral
test
whether
or
not
the
proselytism
in
question
is
"
compatible
with
respect
for
the
freedom
of
thought
,
conscience
and
religion
of
others
"
.
This
is
because
that
very
absence
implies
that
the
State
is
lacking
intrinsic
justification
for
attributing
greater
value
to
the
freedom
not
to
be
proselytised
than
to
the
right
to
proselytise
and
,
consequently
,
for
introducing
a
criminal
-
law
provision
protecting
the
former
at
the
cost
of
the
latter
.
The
second
reason
is
that
the
rising
tide
of
religious
intolerance
makes
it
imperative
to
keep
the
State
’s
powers
in
this
field
within
the
strictest
possible
boundaries
.
However
,
the
Court
achieves
quite
the
reverse
in
attempting
to
settle
those
boundaries
by
means
of
so
elusive
a
notion
as
"
improper
proselytism
"
,
a
definition
of
which
the
Court
does
not
even
attempt
to
give
.
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