If "society" is really all that concerned about abuse (of who?) and degradation, it seems a strange way to go about dealing with it.
As for blasphemy, I can accept someone blaspheming as much as any other form of sin. Those who do it are gonna have to deal with it when the meet our maker.
Blasphemy was a capital offense in ancient Israel. Intoxication was only a subject of law if a priest or Levite was drunk while performing his duties in the Temple.
Or to put it in a way that goes back to the subject of the thread: why should we be more concerned about a picture of a naked woman before which a man masturbates than a picture of Shiva before which a man worships?
Can you answer this, A.J.? Or haven't you a clue?