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They don't want me back
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Date: September 28, 2010 06:30PM
to their illegal practices by saying that Gods laws trump society laws.
They want to over ride the legal system and claim freedom of religion. Problem is that usually they are claiming the right to take away someone else’s freedoms and claiming the right to suffer no consequences as a result. They are writing laws of convenience for themselves. That opens the door too many other abuses of Society and by default the weaker members of society that happen to be born into these situations or families.
Not getting children immunized, the right to faith healing that has caused death in cases of very treatable illnesses, inadequate home schooling with the focus on religion. Look at other cultures who would claim the right to “female genital cutting” forced arranged marriages, honor killings, in the name of religion.
What would happen if a Muslim woman or a FDLS woman didn’t have the right to walk away from that religion? Because of her membership or affiliation with that religion the religious leaders feel free to retaliate against her, using their own laws and consequences.
This has happened in LDS history and continues to happen around the world. Look at men who kill their daughters because they want to date outside their “religion” and these people feel that they have a right to murder and that no one should question their judgment and the victim has no rights at all.
We can’t afford to have religious organizations making their own laws and doing an end run around the laws that would protect us from crimes in the name of religion and give individuals the rights and recourse if they are abused.