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The [[Christian Legal Centre]] is an organisation which, according to its website, exists "To promote and protect the freedoms of Bible believing Christians in the United Kingdom; to promote religious freedom as a fundamental right by means of legal action and public promotion."<ref>[http://www.christianlegalcentre.com/view.php?id=197 About The Christian Legal Centre], Christian Legal Centre, 23 November 2007, accessed 30 August 2010.</ref>
 
The [[Christian Legal Centre]] is an organisation which, according to its website, exists "To promote and protect the freedoms of Bible believing Christians in the United Kingdom; to promote religious freedom as a fundamental right by means of legal action and public promotion."<ref>[http://www.christianlegalcentre.com/view.php?id=197 About The Christian Legal Centre], Christian Legal Centre, 23 November 2007, accessed 30 August 2010.</ref>
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==Cases==
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===Emily Mapfuwa===
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In 2008, the Christian Legal Centre supported Emily Mapfuwa, a Christian who was offended by a sculpture of Christ with an erection, in a private prosecution against the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts for outraging public decency.<ref>Helen Pidd, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/03/religion.art Christian sues gallery over 'blasphemous' erection], The Guardian, 3 September 2008.</ref> In November that year, the case was taken over and discontinued by the [[Crown Prosecution Service]], which concluded there was no case to answer.<ref>[http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/press_releases/165_08/ CPS to intervene in private prosecution of Gateshead art exhibition], Crown Prosecution Service, 10 November 2008.</ref>
  
 
==People==
 
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The Christian Legal Centre is an organisation which, according to its website, exists "To promote and protect the freedoms of Bible believing Christians in the United Kingdom; to promote religious freedom as a fundamental right by means of legal action and public promotion."[1]

Cases

Emily Mapfuwa

In 2008, the Christian Legal Centre supported Emily Mapfuwa, a Christian who was offended by a sculpture of Christ with an erection, in a private prosecution against the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts for outraging public decency.[2] In November that year, the case was taken over and discontinued by the Crown Prosecution Service, which concluded there was no case to answer.[3]

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Notes

  1. About The Christian Legal Centre, Christian Legal Centre, 23 November 2007, accessed 30 August 2010.
  2. Helen Pidd, Christian sues gallery over 'blasphemous' erection, The Guardian, 3 September 2008.
  3. CPS to intervene in private prosecution of Gateshead art exhibition, Crown Prosecution Service, 10 November 2008.
  4. About The Christian Legal Centre, Christian Legal Centre, 23 November 2007, accessed 30 August 2010.