You must not speak of same-sex relationships nor criticise the church nor blaspheme against God! Why? Because it causes offence!

This was the bleak reality of fourteenth century England. The writing of John Wyckliffe was banned for encouraging peasants to read the Bible, William Sawyer was burnt at the stake for blasphemy, and others were branded heretics until the mid-1800s – yet we find ourselves facing a similar problem today.