Yeah, we currently have blasphemy laws in the United States depending on the religion.
And you better bake the cake to support it, or else.
Posted on 09/28/2026 10:32:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Long before the modern culture wars, early American courts treated insults against Jesus Christ as criminal offenses.
In 1811, a New York man was sentenced to prison for blaspheming the name of Christ, and the state’s highest court upheld the conviction without hesitation.
The ruling came from Chief Justice James Kent, who wrote that the United States was a Christian nation that “profess the general doctrines of Christianity.”
Kent’s opinion reflected the legal consensus of his day, not an outlier view.
Similar blasphemy statutes remained active across multiple states for more than a century, shielding the Christian faith from public scorn.
Today, many Americans have little awareness that such laws once existed or that they were enforced by respected jurists.
New York City used to jail citizens for assault, robbery, burglary, theft, prostitution, etc.
RE: New York City used to jail citizens for assault, robbery, burglary, theft, prostitution, etc.
Yep, values and norms have been inverted now.
It is not the America it once was. Whether it is a good thing or not, remains to be seen.
Just need to get back to hanging heretics and burning witches. If that’s too extreme then just enforce the Constitution.
Protestants and one Catholic signed the Declaration of Independence. That is the demographic which established our liberty and freedom.
“American courts treated insults against Jesus Christ as criminal offenses”
The American people became enlightened. Yet now, as we speak, Europe (and especially UK) will jail you for insults to Allah........
Because Europe and England have been colonized.
Sorta like Spain was in 8th-15th centuries. Took the Reconquista to restore Christian morality, law and culture.
Yeah, we currently have blasphemy laws in the United States depending on the religion.
And you better bake the cake to support it, or else.
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Yes, you can be fined or even face imprisonment for cursing in public in Germany if the language is directed at a specific person as an insult.
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The Law on Insults (Beleidigung)
Section 185 StGB: Under the German Criminal Code (§ 185), insulting someone—whether through spoken words, written text, or rude gestures (such as showing the middle finger)—is a formal criminal offense (Straftat)
When Jesus wanted examples of the worst possible people, he chose “tax collectors and prostitutes.” That may explain why the Democrats are anti-Christian. They love taxes and “sex workers.”
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Many don’t realize that the “separation of church and state” idea is not enshrined in the Constitution or Bill of Rights, nor is the First Amendment prohibition against establishing a church applicable to the state governments. Until the mid-1800s, most of the existing states had an established denomination, and many required church attendance, or discouraged non-attendees from holding public office.
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Massachusetts General Laws [as of the 193 General Court of Massachusetts, and subject to change (unlike God's word); 186th version is here]:
TITLE I. CHAPTER 272.
CRIMES AGAINST CHASTITY, MORALITY, DECENCY AND GOOD ORDER [categorized]
Whoever wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing or contumeliously [without respect; in a disdainful manner] 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.
Section 38: Disturbance of assembly for worship
Whoever wilfully interrupts or disturbs an assembly of people met for worship of God shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars.
Section 14: Adultery [repealed 2018, 155, Sec. 2 in MA]
A married person who has sexual intercourse with a person not his spouse or an unmarried person who has sexual intercourse with a married person shall be guilty of adultery and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than three years or in jail for not more than two years or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.
Whoever, having a former husband or wife living, marries another person or continues to cohabit with a second husband or wife in the commonwealth shall be guilty of polygamy, and be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years or in jail for not more than two and one half years or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars; but this section shall not apply to a person whose husband or wife has continually remained beyond sea, or has voluntarily withdrawn from the other and remained absent, for seven consecutive years, the party marrying again not knowing the other to be living within that time, nor to a person who has been legally divorced from the bonds of matrimony.
Section 16: Open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior
A man or woman, married or unmarried, who is guilty of open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than three years or in jail for not more than two years or by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars.
Section 17: Incestuous marriage or sexual activities
Persons within degrees of consanguinity [related by blood] within which marriages are prohibited or declared by law to be incestuous and void, who intermarry or have sexual intercourse with each other, or who engage in sexual activities with each other, including but not limited to, oral or anal intercourse, fellatio, cunnilingus, or other penetration of a part of a person's body, or insertion of an object into the genital or anal opening of another person's body, or the manual manipulation of the genitalia of another person's body, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 20 years or in the house of correction for not more than 21/2 years.
Section 18: Fornication [Repealed, 2018, 155, Sec. 2]
Section 18. Whoever commits fornication shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than three months or by a fine of not more than thirty dollars.
Section 34: Crime against nature
Whoever commits the abominable and detestable crime against nature, either with mankind or with a beast, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than twenty years.
Section 35: Unnatural and lascivious acts
Whoever commits any unnatural and lascivious act with another person shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years or in jail or the house of correction for not more than two and one half years.
Section 35A: Unnatural and lascivious acts with child under 16
Whoever commits any unnatural and lascivious act with a child under the age of sixteen shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years or in jail or the house of correction for not more than two and one half years, and whoever over the age of eighteen commits a second or subsequent such offence shall be sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for a term of not less than five years.
Section 77C: Sexual contact with animal [extensive-link only]
More: https://peacebyjesus.net/mass.gen.laws.html, by the grace of God.
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