AvgGuyIA
Gold Member
Forcing nuns to pay for your abortion isn't persecuting religion?My neighbors and I are forming a new religion, a religion that is against paying taxes to any government entity that does not believe as we do. It's a sort of 'Do we believe" tax idea. We should be grateful if the Court approves of this new concept, I mean that a citizen only pays taxes to those government entities that believes as the taxpayer believes. The big question now is will the Court find according to our new religion or go back to that old First Amendment and everyone is equal crap?
Exactly. This is the misconception so many have about the first amendment's religious protection. It's not there to give religions a pass on following the law, and it shouldn't be used as an excuse to grant special exemptions. It's there to keep government from persecuting religions by target their practices or beliefs with legal prohibitions.