Secondly, it is proposed to create a new offence of incitement to terrorism.
We supported the new Equality Act and the offence of incitement to gay hatred, which should now be implemented.
"The creation under British law of a criminal offence of incitement to religious hatred has provoked bitter and sustained controversy.
For example, the proposed offence of incitement to religious hatred will extend the current provision on incitement to racial hatred in the Public Order Act of 1986.
A CPS spokeswoman said: "An offence of incitement can be committed through a performance of written material or its distribution or broadcast.
The bill extends the offence of incitement to racial hatred, under the Public Order Act 1988, to religious hatred, so that multi-ethnic faith groups are covered, as Sikhs and Jews are at the moment.
Under pressure from the campaigning group Stonewall, the justice secretary, Jack Straw, has announced that the government intends to extend the existing offence of incitement to racial and religious hatred to cover hatred against people because of their sexuality.
The bill also includes a new law to stop trespassing on specified royal and government property - a response to the "comedy terrorist" who managed to get into Prince William's birthday party at Windsor Castle last year - and creates a new offence of incitement to religious hatred.
They say it is still too early to be sure how the new offence of incitement to religious hatred, which applies to all faiths, will operate in practice and that laws which carry "a significant symbolic charge" should not be changed lightly.
She issued a challenge to backbench MPs to introduce a private members' bill that would create the offence of "incitement to gender hatred" - to give women's rights campaigners an important legal tool with which to challenge sexism institutionalised in our culture.
