Should it be against the law, in the United States, to blaspheme or "insult a Deity"?

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205. I think clumsy mocking that's lacking in humour should be illegal...

There's nothing worse than being given the promise of some entertaining mocking, only to find out that their idea of mocking is getting worked up into a rage and I have to avoid the bits of foamy stuff that keeps on flying off their lips as their heads explode repeatedly. If I wanted that experience I'd go find myself some of those RW religious freaks that hate everyone and everything else but them and their god. They're really dependable when it comes to frothing at the mouth.

Mockery should have some good delivery and be at least kind of funny. Landover Baptist hit the mark for me. That's the sort of thing mockers should be aiming for, imo...

btw, while I haven't seen anyone at DU say blasphemy should be illegal in the US, I have seen people say they think the US should have hate crime laws. Whether I agree or not (I'm ambivalent about the laws we have here), it's not an unreasonable sort of thing to agree or disagree on. I don't know if you've seen the Australian Racial Vilification Act, so here's a link to info about it.

https://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/racial-vilification-law-australia

So how it would appear to work is that if a cartoonist here wanted to draw Mohammed, Jesus, and about 50 Hindu gods with multiple wriggling arms as some statement about religious deities, that's fine. If Pamella Geller wanted to bring her circus of Muslim haters here, including Geert Wilders, and set up an 'exhibition' where she had a picture of Mohammed someone drew but also spews hate against Muslims and urges people to destroy Islam blah blah blah, then it's highly likely she'd fall foul of the laws. She probably wouldn't even get a visa to get into the country in the first place, though. The laws talk about good faith, so motivation does play into things...