 Mexican Jacobins, supported by Calles's central government, went beyond mere anticlericalism and engaged in secular antireligious campaigns to eradicate what they called "superstition" and "fanaticism," which included the desecration of religious objects as well as the persecution and the murder of members of the clergy.Calles applied the anticlerical laws stringently throughout the country and added his own anticlerical legislation.In June 1926, he signed the "Law for Reforming the Penal Code," which was unofficially called the "Calles Law."