She lied to Federal investigators. What is arcane about that?
Also I hope you hold the Muslim clerics who screech in mosques about the Great Satan, the evil Jews and Christians etc. to the same standard of blasphemy. But of course the point is moot in their case as anything they write or say will be zealously defended by the left. Which is possibly the case with the judge in Italy.
Don't like Martha's example -- pick another. The point is, we sure have arcane laws when we want them.
I hold everyone to the same standard of civility, and that includes a prohibition of gratuitous, unbargained-for blasphemy, of objects of religious veneration and worship. Speech in a house of worship, e.g. mosque, is by definition intended for the willing audience; same is art displayed in a private museum. Once it spills out to the street, so to say, it should be civil.