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The authorities tried to silence/kill Galileo because of his speech. His speech targeted religion as it challenged their beliefs. Of its day it would have been deemed as insulting to the church.
The proposed legislation is incredibly subjective that it allows for prosecution of someone who says anything that is subjectively inferred to be insulting a religious group.
If you're ok with the state being the arbiters of what you can and cannot say and what you can and cannot listen to then you would never hear a modern equivalent of such a brilliant person such as Galileo Galilei. I personally wouldn't trust such legislation to be drafted by the likes of Kris Faafoi, seeing as he was incapable of articulating the intention of specific use cases of where the law would be applied.
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