" might cite the bombing of an abortion clinic as a riposite"
Thing is, the bombing of abortion clinics are typically done by people who are OPPOSED to the government. The people stuffing the girls back into the burning buildings were the muttaween religious police--they were government employees who had the full coercive power of the state at their command.
"No, it's still secular. The government is run by a dynasty that has no religious position."
The al-Sauds and the Wahabi religious leaders have been operating in synergy since the 1700s. They depend on each other, plus members of the two familes (the Wahabis are a dynasty in their own right--the founder was a man named al-Wahab) intermarry. The dynasty views itself as the "strong arm" of the Wahabi sect.
"Most US states ban sodomy for religous reasons, that doesn't make the US a theocracy either"
There's a difference of scale here. Firstly, the sodomy laws are rarely enforced, or else there'd be probably millions in jail for it, plus religious-based US laws (unless you count prohibitions against killing, stealing, etc) are relatively few in number. The Saudis' unbelievably nasty and numerous "Islamic" laws (gender segregation, abuse of women who go out in public w/out tents or male relatives, abuse of Jews and Christians, beheading missionaries, holding American women hostage, etc) are enforced by a police-state apparatus that rivals, if not the KGB, possibly the old SAVAK.
The fact that the US State Department colludes in this (an American woman and her daughters being abused by Saudi husband were turned out of the US Embassy by Marines, who didn't especially like doing it) makes me almost physically ill.