Blasphemy!!!

In the United States, a few state legal codes still contain 

anti-blasphemy laws, but they generally are not enforced

Generally not enforced

There is a problem with looking for truth. The search sometimes or often reveals inconvenient truth. That  applies to people who accept inconvenient truth as truth. People who reject it as lies are comfortable and self-assured. 

As we all know, Blasphemy!!! once was a crime punishable by death as shown in this historically accurate documentary of early America as fully documented in accord with Christian Young Earth theory: 

Clearly, it is best to not have fresh halibut for dinner. But that is a digression.

Despite my false belief, it has come to my attention that Blasphemy!!! is still illegal in parts of America. The Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC) writes:

To understand secularism, is to understand the interaction between law and religion. While there are a variety of ways that religion indirectly influences law (such as laws which have the same effect as enforcing a religious perspective on all people in the country), the most direct influence is through blasphemy laws. CFIC encourages an understanding of all blasphemy laws and how they impact their local societies and people around the world. In this article, CFIC examines blasphemy laws in the USA. In 2011 Pew Research Center published a study indicating that 59 countries (30%) still have some form of legislation against blasphemy, apostasy or religious defamation. While nationally the United States has deemed blasphemy laws unconstitutional, some states still have them on the books. In the 1952 case of Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson, the U.S. Supreme Court found that

“the state has no legitimate interest in protecting any or all religions from views distasteful to them. . . . It is not the business of government in our nation to suppress real or imagined attacks upon a particular religious doctrine . . . .”

Massachusetts, Michigan, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Wyoming, have laws which reference blasphemy.

For example, Massachusetts, General Laws, Chapter 272, Section 36:

Whoever willfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, his creation, government or final judging of the world, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching or exposing to contempt and ridicule, the holy word of God contained in the holy scriptures shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, and may also be bound to good behavior.

It makes one wonder, if these laws are never enforced, why does it matter that they exist? They may rarely be enforced but their existence allows for some cases to be brought forward. A Pennsylvanian filmmaker was turned down in 2007 for a corporate name “I Choose Hell Productions”, based on Pennsylvania’s blasphemy law. States have symbolic power to enforce these laws. It’s a form of moral condemnation as stated by Sarah Barringer Gordon, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Blasphemy laws:

• Restrict freedom of speech
• Infringe on the right to freedom of religion
• Often lead to human rights violations during enforcement
• Can incite mass violence
• Fail to promote religious harmony which is supposedly the intention

From that, one can see that Blasphemy!!! could be an issue in the 2022 and/or 2024 elections. Possibly also fresh halibut.

Q: Since congress is busy endlessly bickering, deceiving the public and thumb twiddling, should outlawing American Blasphemy!!! laws be ignored because US citizens can defend themselves because they are armed with AR-15 assault rifles and billions of rounds of bone-shattering, flesh-ripping ammo?