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Racial and Religious Hatred Bill

Perhaps I will do so in a minute or two. I have only 10 minutes, and it is a sad day when I can preach for only 10 minutes. The Christian faith and various surrounding denominations have a background, which must be respected. I welcome the Home Secretary’s assurance that if a preacher defends what he has believed to be the doctrine of his own Church for many a long year it would be wrong to tell him, ““We don’t like that language, and we accuse you of inciting people to violence.”” I hope that before proceedings on the Bill are completed it will include a provision saying that quotations from the Bible, which I believe to be the word of God, and the great religious documents cannot be taken and used against someone because they adhere to them. I do not adhere to the Council of Trent’s decree that a person who believes in justification by faith should be anathemised. I have escaped the fires of hell so far, and I intend to do so in another world.