 On the domestic front , Lang supported campaigns for the abolition of the death penalty . He upheld the right of the Church to refuse the remarriage of divorced persons within its buildings , but he did not directly oppose A.P. Herbert 's Matrimonial Causes Bill of 1937 , which liberalised the divorce laws – Lang believed " it was no longer possible to impose the full Christian standard by law on a largely non @-@ Christian population . " He drew criticism for his opposition to the reform of the ancient tithe system , whereby many farmers paid a proportion of their income to the Church ; in the subsequent " Tithe Wars " , demonstrators at Ashford , Kent ceremonially burned his effigy . Near the end of his term in office Lang led a deputation from several church groups to the Ministry of Education , to present a five @-@ point plan for the teaching of religion in state schools . These points were eventually embodied in the 1944 Education Act . 
