Anonymous leaflets saying homosexuality is "unnatural, corrupted, distorted and a sin", have been delivered to addresses in Cambridge and Ely.
Police said they had been contacted by several people upset by the leaflets.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned that the Christian faith should never be used as a justification for homophobic bullying.
By no means perfect, but a step in the right direction at least
Frustrated by America's unwillingness to persecute and kill homosexuals, Evangelicals have started to export their hate to other countries. Now one of them will have to face the consequences for his crimes against humanity.
Welsh vicar resigns in protest of homophobia in the church
A prominent vicar from Wales has sensationally resigned, this week – citing homophobia in the church as his main reason for quitting.
Specifically, he has resigned over the issue of same-sex marriage, which continues to divide members of the religious community.
The Reverend Andrew Morton, pictured speaking to the BBC, claims that some members of the Anglican communion - including elements of the Church in Wales - have become more homophobic.
Morton, the vicar of Llangybi in Monmouthshire, is the first clergyman in Wales to step down over the matter, the BBC add.
The Church in Wales said it a "matter of regret" for clergy to resign over an issue yet to be resolved by the church.
The resignation comes shortly after The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, said that the United Kingdom is in danger of losing its identity over gay rights and feminism. In a recent address to Welsh teenagers, the 61 year-old – who recently resigned from his role to return to academics – claimed that identity had become a "slippery" word because too much emphasis has been placed on the rights of minority groups. Instead, he insisted that society focus on the common good. "Identity politics, whether it is the politics of feminism, whether it is the politics of ethnic minorities or the politics of sexual minorities, has been a very important part of the last ten or 20 years because before that I think there was a sense that diversity was not really welcome," he said. "And so minorities of various kinds and … women began to say: 'Actually we need to say who we are in our terms, not yours' and that led to identity politics of a very strong kind and legislation that followed it. "We are now, I think, beginning to see the pendulum swinging back and saying identity politics is all very well but we have to have some way of putting it all back together again and discovering what is good for all of us and share something of who we are with each other so as to discover more about who we are."
'Anti-gay' book puts Gove at centre of faith school teaching row: Education secretary says Equality Act does not extend to school curriculum – allowing faith schools to use homophobic material
Michael Gove, the education secretary, is at the centre of an escalating row over how faith schools discuss homosexuality in sex education classes.
The TUC has accused Gove of failing in his legal duties by insisting that equality laws, which prohibit discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, do not extend to the school curriculum.
The TUC complains that the current situation sends mixed signals to the playground, because schools are legally obliged to condemn discrimination on sexual-orientation grounds but free to use religious materials that equality campaigners claim is homophobic.
Brendan Barber, the TUC's general secretary, wrote to Gove in December expressing alarm that a booklet containing "homophobic material" had been distributed by a US preacher after talks to pupils at Roman Catholic schools across the Lancashire region in 2010.
The booklet, "Pure Manhood: How to become the man God wants you to be", discusses a boy dealing with "homosexual attractions" which it suggested may "stem from an unhealthy relationship with his father, an inability to relate to other guys, or even sexual abuse".
The booklet, which claims that "scientifically speaking, safe sex is a joke", explains that "the homosexual act is disordered, much like contraceptive sex between heterosexuals. Both acts are directed against God's natural purpose for sex – babies and bonding."
Referring to the Equality Act 2010, which prohibits discrimination against individuals, Barber said: "Schools now have a legal duty to challenge all forms of prejudice. Such literature undermines this completely."
But Gove insists: "The education provisions of the Equality Act 2010 which prohibit discrimination against individuals based on their protected characteristics (including their sexual orientation) do not extend to the content of the curriculum. Any materials used in sex and relationship education lessons, therefore, will not be subject to the discrimination provisions of the act."
Gove's response has triggered anger from the TUC. "Having written to the education secretary to express our worry about the distribution of homophobic literature in faith schools, his lack of concern is very alarming," Barber said.
A DfE spokesman insisted: "Any school engaging in the promotion of homophobic material would be acting unlawfully." But the row highlights a grey area over the teaching of sex education. A review intended to provide new guidelines on what was appropriate for schools to teach was kicked into the long grass when the last election was called.
"It would certainly be helpful if there was clarity as to what is appropriate for young people of all ages," said Ben Summerskill, chief executive of the gay rights group Stonewall. "The water could no longer be muddied by people pushing age-inappropriate sex material on the one hand and fundamentalist anti-gay religious materials on the other."
The row comes at the end of an extraordinary week in which the role of religion in society has come under acute scrutiny.
The chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Trevor Phillips, said religious rules should be left "at the door of the temple" and give way to the "public law" laid down by parliament. Phillips said: "Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules – for example, child protection – then it has to go with public law." Phillips spoke out after Baroness Warsi, the Tory minister, warned Britain was under threat from a rising tide of "militant secularisation".
Lord Carey, the former archbishop of Canterbury, warned that Christianity was being marginalised. Days earlier, the high court ruled that councils had no statutory power to hold prayers in meetings, while the Christian owners of a bed-and-breakfast lost an appeal against a ruling that their policy of restricting double rooms to married couples discriminated against a gay couple.
Concerns that faith matters are being marginalised at school has prompted the creation of a new coalition of faith groups and politicians. The Religious Education Council of England and Wales is to back the creation of an all-party parliamentary group that will focus on protecting religious education in schools and stressing its value to young people.
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I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I’m ‘bad’.
Mike Fuhrman