LONDON—Both the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England have announced their support for scrapping the English law against blasphemy and replacing it with a more generalized law against incitement to religious hatred.
The present blasphemy law only covers material denying the truth of Christianity, the Bible or the Church of England’s Book of Common Prayer. A committee of the house of Lords is currently considering whether the law should be replaced by a new statute aimed at making “incitement to religious hatred” illegal.
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