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

[NanceGreggs]

229. Nowhere have I told anyone ...

... to "respect bigoted religious beliefs".

What I have said all along is that one need not DISRESPECT the religious beliefs of another for no other purpose than to do so.

That is exactly what Geller did - the person/event that has prompted all of these "religion" threads. She mocked someone else's religious beliefs for the SOLE purpose of doing just that; there was no other purpose to be served.

Nowhere have I said that anyone is obligated to respect, adhere to, or accept the religious beliefs of others. What I have said is that everyone who has a religious faith should be free from being "mocked" by those who don't share that faith.

Believe me, I am the last person on earth who would be "an apologist for religious beliefs". But I find it abhorrent that anyone would think that disrespecting another person on the basis that they HAVE a religion they believe in is in any way a progressive idea, or an appropriate way to conduct themselves.

I am not flailing, my dear - I am trying to communicate a rather simple concept, which you have repeatedly demonstrated an inability to grasp.