The legislation relating to Blasphemy in the Uk was repealed in.....get ready for this....2008!
Prior to that is was still possible to be criminally prosecuted for Blasphemy, and what is worst, it has NEVER been repealed in Scotland, Northern (and southern) Ireland, both of whom refused to comply with the 2008 ruling and kept it on their common law books.

Many states of the Union still have Blasphemy laws and the last successful prosecution was in 1926 upheld in the supreme court, but court time and has been wasted on many cases since, all of which have been overturned on appeal.

In both Britain and the US there is NO legal definition of blasphemy, other than it be offensive to Christian sensibilities, in word thought or action.

Now doesn't that sound eerily familiar if you replace Blasphemy with Hate speech?