Why should a movie depicting Christ having ‘sexual tensions’ be deemed subject to blasphemy? It can only be because the state has established one particular religious view of Christ, or God, or it seems in the case of Russia Putin himself as a state religion. You are free to offend as much as you want the religious beliefs of those outside of the in group but not those who have the power.

This demonstrates why the US’s ‘ACLU’ view of free speech is so much better.

Blasphemy was abolished in England & Wales in 2008. Scotland has its own criminal law and blasphemy remains a crime there. There have been no prosecutions for many years, but the old indictments speak of “publishing or exposing for sale blasphemous works, intended to asperse, vilify, ridicule, and bring into contempt the Holy Scriptures, or the Christian Religion.” Mere spoken words are punished as a breach of the peace.

In France, the new Penal Code, proposed by Louis Michel le Peletier, Marquis de Saint-Fargeau (promulgated September 26 – October 6, 1791) abolished, without a debate, the crimes of blasphemy, sodomy and witchcraft [le blasphème, la sodomie et la sorcellerie] It is, however, an offence to insult or defame a group or individual on account of membership or non-membership, real or supposed, of a religion. A distributor of leaflets, insulting God and His Messenger, was prosecuted for endangering public safety/well-being [« le salut publique »]