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11 Feb 2015, 2:53 pm
Ruggles (N.Y. 1811) (Kent, J.), which upheld a blasphemy conviction for saying, “Jesus Christ was a bastard, and his mother must be a whore”; State v. [read post]
22 Jul 2013, 8:05 am by The Charge
  Considered a "landmark case", Epperson v. [read post]
27 Dec 2011, 9:21 am by Eugene Volokh
By way of perspective, several early 1800s American cases (I know of four published opinions, Ruggles, Updegraph, Kneeland, and Murray) upheld convictions for blasphemy of Christianity, sometimes based on similar facts: People v. [read post]
12 Dec 2011, 11:16 am by Eugene Volokh
(For purposes of our discussion, we will set aside the question whether, under United States v. [read post]