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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
They MUST be free to live according to their religious beliefs.
We want to intervene when their religious actions do not make sense to us.
Then the person down the road wants to intervene when your religious actions don't make sense to them.
With all the talk on forums of the "slippery slope"... this is, indeed, a dangerous and slippery slope.
Either the Constitution is the law of the land or it isn't. Either we obey it or we throw it out.
The latter is, increasingly, becoming the trend.
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I agree with the bolded sentence BUT the extra variable in the equation is the fact that in these situations where dealing with a young person who doesn't yet have the authority to make their own choices.
It is far easier to have faith for your OWN healing devoid of any medical intervention, but quite another to have faith for someone else who cannot make that decision for themselves. And then when that other person dies? "Why Satan is attacking
me!" is most often heard.
Now if I was a judge, based on what I know, I would very begrudgingly rule in the parent favor in most cases. I would be angry at them and have a hard time drumming up sympathy -THAT would be saved for the young victims, but the Constitution is the Constitution and religious freedom is above individual cases.
Then, still as a judge but off the record, I would tell the parents what I REALLY felt in a person-to-person way as I exercised MY 1st Amendment rights.
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