Oh, right. It's only religious people who get to demand a witch trial of anybody who offends them.

Nobody said that. In the contrary, I have made clear that I sort this offence with the equivalent directed at blacks, gays, whoever. And I am astonished that you demand a right to hurt people.

Yes. Why is this difficult to understand?

Because it's so obviously bullshit. Persons who "choose to become political figures" don't lose their personality rights. We are no bloody yank journos hunting for politicians' sex lives and the like, are we?

The pope is treated with an irrational deference that no secular politician is granted.

Huh? By whom? You are fantasising.