Yes.
Well sir, then you and I are mortal enemies.
Queen Elizabeth is supposed to have been urged by member of her privy council to jail and punish Catholics. Her response is supposed to have been, “I won’t make windows into mens’ souls.” In other words, all that mattered to her was that they were `good Englishmen’ (translated: loyal to her).
As late as the 19th century the great state of Maryland had a criminal law that made a third offense for blasphemy punishable by death. Shirley ... you don’t think we should return to those days, do you?
The problem with such laws that attempt to enforce societal morality along religious lines is that someone else can come along and get harsher, and the next guy even harsher yet. People who like to hold others to standards forget that others may have much higher standards - and much more brutal punishments. The hunter may quickly find that they are the hunted.
Which pretty much describes Islam, who’s spiraling laws of stricter morality are responsible to a great deal of the brutality in the world today. Surely you’d oppose with force any attempt by Muslim clerics to impose their moral order on this country. Surely you understand that many would do the same with you. At what point do you become Taliban?
If you were to enforce what you wanted to enforce like some Ministry of Virtue and Vice, I simply would declare a more strict morality, and by that authority overthrow and exterminate you in a very speedy, efficient and public manner. The hunter would become the hunted.
That’s always the problem seeking to do what you do. You would be harsh. I would be harsher. My superior morality would give me the authority to eradicate the infidels. And so on it would spiral, like it does in turd world countries like Pakistan, Somalia, and Sudan.
That is the problem with your position. Policing morality never stops where you draw the line. It always progresses till those in charge completely dominate and subjugate their people. That is why I hate Taliban of any religious stripe. I consider them regardless of religion to be vermin to be eradicated brutally and without mercy, before they make us all infidels under their oppressive yoke.