Again, you are the one who brought up the hypothetical levels of blasphemy in your 66, not me.
Statues and icons of saints are sacred. Priests are holy men, and so is the Holy Father the pope. The idiots who think otherwise should educate themselves before they make movies, no educate me what is and what is not sacred according to their own little brains.
As individuals popes and priests have flaws and those can be discussed. If the episode satirized flaws of a particular pope as an individual, that would have been appropriate. Instead, it put a generic pope in an obscene context, and that is not appropriate.
I see you’re right regarding Catholics view of sacred images . But I also see that there is a strict Catholic definition of blasphemy that does not include contempt toward people or objects in the Catholic Encylopedia on CD ROM : “While etymologically blasphemy may denote the derogation of the honour due to a creature as well as of that belonging to God, in its strict acceptation it is used only in the latter sense.”
Nothing in the South Park episode did that. Still, if you read through that page, you’ll see that simply claiming that God is an invention of man in blasphemy. Is that the blasphemy that you think government should outlaw or is it as I said earlier that blasphemy is a subjective term or at least an ambiguous term.