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Of course, if you define "equivalent" as "desecrating an altar of worship," then no secular moral outrage, no matter how sincere and heartfelt, can ever be "equivalent," since secular ethics do not define any places as places of worship. Such a definition is, of course, another case of blatant special pleading, no different from defining "equivalent" as "violating a taboo on iconography" (by which standard it is the altar, not Pussy Riot's performance, which is the valid cause of moral outrage, by the way).
But you do defile the dignity of the courtroom by letting religious bigots use it to silence detractors.
- Jake Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
And you want me to BELIEVE what you cannot prove: the existence of religious bigots successfully silencing detractors.
You have a problem with the coexistence of different sets of beliefs.
I'm the one who wants to not allow people who have a problem with the coexistence of different sets of beliefs to use the court system to eliminate that coexistence.
You want atheism as state religion, and the right to define a small corner where religion can exist, without leaving any agency to the religious.
That is dishonest. If you demand that religious bigots have the right to censor sacrilege, then you cannot declare a genitalia-crucifix being banned to be irrelevant to the discussion. Since, you know, there's no actual objective distinction between uploading a YouTube video of a song you don't like and displaying a cross-shaped picture of genitalia.
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