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RussBLib

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4. talk about a slippery slope
Mon Jan 25, 2016, 02:48 PM
Jan 2016

If we let people have a religious exemption for this and that, where does it stop? Can they avoid paying taxes because their religion might forbid it? How about murdering someone who criticized your faith and belittled you because of it? Chaining wives and children to a bed or other fixture would seem OK to me if the religion said they had to obey the patriarch.

You may say those things do not apply to the current versions of Christianity but what about newer or upstart religions that might have unusual teachings or rules?

We can respect religion without granting them special privileges, but nobody has the balls.

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