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A new human rights law in the UK makes rappers and other musicians spewing intolerable lyrics pay with jail time. According to allhiphop.com, Justice Secretary Jack Straw states that the proposed law will cover gay men, women and bisexual people, as well as transsexuals and disabled people.

"It is a measure of how far we have come as a society in the last 10 years that we are now appalled by hatred and invective directed at people on the basis of their sexuality," Justice Secretary Jack Straw told reporters.  

The law was passed in response to hateful lyrics that advocate physically hurting or disrespecting homosexuals. "We refuse to accept any longer that there's no connection between extreme rap lyrics calling for gay people to be attacked or fundamentalist claims that all gay people are pedophiles, and the epidemic of anti-gay violence disfiguring Britain's streets," Ben Summerskill of gay rights organization Stonewall told The BBC. "We anticipate, as always, a tough battle with our traditional opponents in the House of Lords but remain determined to secure complete equality in the criminal law."

Allhiphop.com reports that the law does not prohibit the criticism of gays or lesbians, but protects them from threats or appeals of violence because of their sexual orientation. Violators can serve up to seven years.

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