Home Secretary David Blunkett responded with plans to criminalise incitement to religious hatred and he suggested the blasphemy law might be repealed once the new law was in force .
Religious hatred became the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 .
Home Secretary David Blunkett responded with plans to criminalise incitement to religious hatred , which became the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 , and he suggested the blasphemy law might be repealed once the new law was in force .