Blog of the Day: Bible Ban

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Having written to Cranmer about this article in yesterday's Telegraph, on calls in Hong Kong to reclassify the Bible as an indecent publication, I am happy to direct you to His Grace's post, Demands to ban the Bible, in which he speculates:

One might expect to hear very soon of such cases being brought in the courts of the United Kingdom. Cranmer suspects that they may come first from the militant gay lobby, demanding that any passages that may be adduced to make homosexuals ‘feel uncomfortable’ ought to be excised from (at least) Bibles used in schools. The Qur’an will, of course, be exempt (probably because it is not ‘widely used’).

If Prime Minister Brown were to revive attempts to outlaw the incitement to religious hatred, there are vast tranches of Scripture which may be deemed to fall foul of such a law.