“Yes, but if we were starting all over again, with a new constitution,” he said, “some people think we should have laws against really extreme forms of blasphemy, and that we should require people to acknowledge, at least formally, that the country is built on allegiance to Jesus Christ.” Blasphemy laws—of the hard or soft kind—require people to be doublespeakers. What the people pushing for these laws want is doublespeak, not the gospel.