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Originally Posted by Ustwo
My point is quite obvious to anyone not looking from a biased viewpoint trying to get the 'evil right wing'. Had the parents been in Heavens Gate instead would there be a story here? Had they been giving the child peyote to go on a vision quest would there be a story?
My question is the fundamental question of the story. What makes something a 'religion' and therefore protected?
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Actually, if you have read my previous posts, I am not condemning the GOP, but simply asking how any true person loving their freedoms and the Constitution can support this. I do find it sad that you apparently agree with the judge or are trying to argue for the sake of arguing. I also stated I find it quite saddening that noone in the GOP party has stood up and pronounced this unconstitutional and wrong. I guess it is support through silence on the party's part.
This was a story some years back in that Waco had children and that was one reason, perhaps the major reason the Feds. didn't just go in. And then some GOP slammed Clinton because it was a "religious attack with no foundations".
What seperates a cult from a religion? I am not a law major and do not know the answer, but I can say that comparing Heaven's Gate to a religion that is recognized already by our government as having merit, Wiccan, shows ignorance and IMHO is arguing a non-issue and trying to win approval for a disgusting, prejudiced, anti-constitutional judgement.
Again, nowhere did I slam the GOP as a whole, basically it's the Religious Right that I feel probably stands behind this and is more or less testing the waters to see what kind of protestations come before trying this as a nationwide principle.