People always wax lyrical about ‘freedom of speech’ in the UK like it’s an American-style constitutional right. It isn’t, and it never has been. The British have never viewed freedom of speech as an absolute right, but as something which must be balanced with the need for public order and the protection of the individual from libel and slander.
That said, I don’t believe she should be criminalised just for expressing an opinion on homosexuality, it should depend on the context, and in this context it is absurd that she is being investigated...
And furthermore, there is no ‘first lady’ in the UK, in NI or anywhere else. That is a republican concept, in the UK, the Queen would be the ‘first lady’, and the use of the term to describe any British politician’s wife as such betrays the nascent republicanism that is present at all levels within the BBC...
I have to nitpick and say that the "context" to be criminal should be only in the realm of crying "Fire" in a theater or inciting a riot.