J. R. Spencer, Blasphemo Libel Rurrected. Gay News and Grim Tidgs, The Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Nov., 1979), pp. 245-251
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WHEHOE V LEMON; WHEHOE V GAY NEWS LTD: HL 21 FEB 1979
R v Lemon; R v Gay News Ltd [1979] 1 All ER 898. The appellants Gay News Ltd publish a newspaper for homosexuals lled Gay News. Had he given evince, I have ltle doubt that he would have said, and tly said, that he had no tentn to shock Christian believers but that he published the poem not to offend Christians but to fort practisg homosexuals by enuragg them to feel that there was room for them the Christian relign.
In the prent se, had the argument for acceptance and wele of homosexuals wh the lovg fold of the Christian fah been advanced ' a sober and temperate style', there uld have been no crimal offence mted. They had published a poem which scribed homosexual acts rried out on the body of Christ after his ath.