Dear NP: Whether people are protesting against Muslims, Westboro Baptists, LDS leaders for hiding sexual abuse against children, the REAL issue is the lack of legal check against
religious abuses, for fear of the state intervening "prematurely" and interfering with church matters before it is legally proven that an offense has occurred.
That is the REAL issue.
You can have religious freedom, and incorporate and practice in this country.
But no corporation, church, cult or any person or group should be able to abuse that freedom as "license" to abridge, deny or violate the same rights of others, including due
process and equal protections of the laws. And then wait until "after it is proven" to be confronted by the state. In the meantime, the abuse has already occurred; and the threat of that already imposes on public safety and security, without a way to address it!
To clearly prohibit the abuse of religious authority under Shariah laws (or Westboro protestors or LDS,
or any religious following/cult, even the business that ran the sweatlodge in the negligence homicide case), ALL groups that incorporate should be REQUIRED to follow the same Bill of Rights and due process that government has to follow as a "collective" authority/institution with a chain of command over other people. This is just to follow basic civil rights that are part of the same law as religious freedom, it is not really adding any new requirements, just enforcing the ones that are already there.
That is not abridging religious freedom to require incorporated institutions to respect the SAME LAWS that recognize religious freedom within that SAME CONTEXT. It is merely to prevent abuses that would otherwise violate the same set of laws being invoked. This requires more of an educational process than anything else, but writing agreement into policy or law may be necessary to ensure public security and fairness in enforcing these standards for ALL corporations and institutions registered under the state, not targeting any one group.
Freedom of speech, press or religion cannot be taken out of context with other civil rights -- like the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition with equal defense and due process; the right to equal
representation and protection; the right to peace and security in homes, persons,
communities, without fear of imposition from someone else's abusive intent.
I think ALL citizens and ALL corporations should have to sign agreements to
uphold and respect the same civil standards and ethics that we wish to invoke
and to enforce, if we expect the same to be respected for us and for government.
And any person, born here or not, who does NOT intend to follow the laws, and does NOT agree to correction and restitution for deliberately abusing rights to violate those of others,
should have their citizenship denied or revoked, in exchange for someone on the waiting list committed to work and contribute productively in the U.S. as a law-abiding citizen.
You can't legislate this for private citizens -- that part would have to be either
voluntarily followed, or left to individuals to incorporate their own civic associations and
rules to enforce such standards locally by consent of the participating groups or districts.
But since church groups and business corporations register with the state to be recognized entities, you CAN ADD this to the requirements -- that in order to incorporate and practice in the U.S. or in that state, these organizations agree to abide by Constitutional laws and ethics. I listed these online, for other people who want to use these policies to set up
local standards in their neighborhoods, council districts or states based on the same
principles that our government officials and institutions are supposed to be following:
ethics-commission.net
Thank you
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Believe it or not, people actually go to church to worship God, and nothing else.
Fucking libtard. 
