The First Amendment Center’s David Hudson has an entertaining and slightly unnerving story about the various blasphemy and profanity laws still on the books in various American states. Here’s a sampler: Michigan’s blasphemy law says: Any person who shall willfully blaspheme the holy name of God, by cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Oklahoma law provides: Blasphemy consists in wantonly uttering or punishing words, casting contumelious reproach or pr…
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