"commit sacrilege" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to do something that violates or shows disrespect for something that is considered sacred or holy. Example: The vandals broke into the church and committed sacrilege by defacing the altar and stealing the sacred relics.
Bechdel, with many of her peers, shares Green's impulse to commit sacrilege.
See Bailey, Universal Etymological English Dictionary (London, 1730), "Sacrilegious" -- "of, pertaining to, or guilty of Sacrilege"; Funk & Wagnalls' New Standard Dictionary (1937), "Sacrilegious" -- "Having committed or being ready to commit sacrilege.
But to mention McCann in the same breath as Stein, far less to argue that he was more important to the club (as opposed to the team) is, to a substantial number, to commit sacrilege.
They object to calling them "masks" and say that outsiders who photograph, collect or sell them are committing sacrilege.
Alastair Sim's wife once upbraided me for saying my father wasn't very good at tennis – which he certainly wasn't – as if I was committing sacrilege".
Life accompanies health simultaneously (but not health life), knowledge accompanies the act of learning subsequently, cheating accompanies sacrilege potentially, since a man who has committed sacrilege is always capable of cheating.
c Alienation to laymen, or to common purposes, of what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses". "Sacrilegious" -- "Committing sacrilege; characterized by or involving sacrilege; polluted with sacrilege; as, sacrilegious robbers, depredations, or acts". Repeated in the 1939, 1942, 1944, 1949 printings, among others.
Rabbi Teitelbaum was a consistent opponent of the State of Israel since its founding in 1948, maintaining that only the Messiah could create a Jewish state and that the Government committed sacrilege by such practices as permitting women to serve in the military.
At the risk of committing sacrilege, remember they crucified Jesus, so your extensive wardrobe means nothing to the haters.
Legend has it that before starting the work he was warned in a dream that he would be punished if he committed sacrilege by damaging the building.
In Rome, for example, Clodius, a noted ladies' man, committed sacrilege by dressing up as a woman and infiltrating the female-only religious festival of the goddess Bona Dea, with the aim of seducing Pompeia, Julius Caesar's wife.
