The government has said that it was “inappropriate” for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to argue that parts of the Bible are “no longer appropriate in modern society” in a now-dropped prosecution against a British Christian street preacher.
In the House of Lords in December, Baroness Hoey asked the government what assessment they have made of the written statement by the Crown Prosecution Service that the “Bible contains references ‘which are simply no longer appropriate in modern society and which would be deemed offensive if stated in public.’”
