“It protects only the beliefs of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and hasn’t been used since 1843,” the report said.

The SNP said in a statement: “Council believes that such a move will strengthen Scotland’s capacity to speak out against human rights abuses under the guise of blasphemy and heresy elsewhere in the world, as well as removing once and for all the possibility that the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal service could prosecute on such grounds here.” ...