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Laws prohibiting blasphemy and blasphemous libel in the United Kingdom date back to the medieval times as common law and in some special cases as enacted legislation. The common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel were formally abolished in England and Wales in 2008 and Scotland in 2024. Equivalent laws remain in Northern Ireland.
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The common law offence of blasphemy was repealed in 2008. The last person to be imprisoned for blasphemy in the UK was John William Gott in 1922, for comparing Jesus Christ to a clown. [18] The next blasphemy case was in 1977, when Mary Whitehouse brought a private prosecution (Whitehouse v.
The Blasphemy Act 1697 (9 Will. 3.c. 35) was an Act of the Parliament of England.It made it an offence for any person, educated in or having made profession of the Christian religion, by writing, preaching, teaching or advised speaking, to deny the Holy Trinity, to claim there is more than one god, to deny the truth of Christianity and to deny the Bible as divine authority.
The 1989 film Visions of Ecstasy was the only film ever banned in the UK for blasphemy. Following the abolition of the blasphemy laws in England and Wales in 2008, the film was eventually classified by the BBFC for release as 18-rated in 2012. [157]
The Stephen Code included the offence of blasphemous libel but omitted blasphemy. The common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel were abolished in England and Wales with the passage of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 [1] but the offences remain as part of the common law, criminal code, or criminal statute in various ...
Whitehouse v Lemon is a 1977 court case involving the blasphemy law in the United Kingdom. It was the last successful blasphemy trial in the UK. It was the last successful blasphemy trial in the UK. "The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name"
The act 53 Geo. 3.c. 160, sometimes called the Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813, [2] the Trinitarian Act 1812, [3] the Unitarian Relief Act, [4] the Trinity Act, the Unitarian Toleration Bill, or Mr William Smith's Bill (after Whig politician William Smith), [5] was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which amended its blasphemy laws and granted toleration for Unitarian worship.