As a secularist, I don't believe in blasphemy.
The reason our nation's government does not permit legal murder of homosexuals and (at least obvious) subjugation of women is because our government is SECULAR. The Founding Fathers wisely structured the young United States to try to keep religious zealots as far away from the seats of power as they could.
In your own home state of CA, a Christian lawyer this spring filed a ballot proposal
to make it legal to shoot gay men and women in the head. Here is what this Christian lawyer had to say about homosexuality:
"Seeing that it is better that offenders should die rather than that all of us should be killed by God's just wrath against us for the folly of tolerating-wickedness in our midst, the People of California wisely command, in the fear of God, that any person who willingly touches another person of the same gender for purposes of sexual gratification be put to death by bullets to the head or by any other convenient method."
And here's another article from 2015 about Christian pastors who support stoning homosexuals to death, because it's in the Bible, after all:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progres...r-homosexuals/
And here's a lovely article about Christians who have murdered children in the name of disciplining them the way they believe the Bible tells them to:
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/26/a_st...abuse_partner/
And an article by a guy explaining why the Bible says it's okay to "gently" hit your wife:
http://christwire.org/2009/04/is-it-...beat-his-wife/
I should note in this rage-inducing article, he says that were it a few hundred years ago, he would gladly have helped kill a woman who committed adultery.
And the typical response is, "Well, but these people aren't REAL Christians." Yeah, tell that to them. Their response will be that they are the real deal and you're not. And they do believe they're doing a better job of following the Bible than you are.
And I am grateful I live in a nation where religion is not allowed to make the laws. And I pray to the Flying Spaghetti Monster that his Holy Noodleness continues to keep it that way.
Oh! One more. Reminder of the woman in Ireland who died because doctors refused her an abortion of a dying fetus that would have saved her life:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2128696.html
Highlight from the story:
""Again on Tuesday morning ... the consultant said it was the law, that this is a Catholic country. Savita said: `I am neither Irish nor Catholic' but they said there was nothing they could do," Praveen Halappanavar said."