Please dont say its not because I have plenty of examples to support these statements.
2007-08-09 09:50:45 · 11 answers · asked by silverfox 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
okay then, an example of exemption from law... In 2006 the united states supreme court ruled that a church in new mexico should be exempt from the law, which everyone else has to obey, against the taking of hallucinogenic drugs. The church believed they could understand god better by drinking such substances. However if you let cancer sufferers smoke cannibis to relieve their pain for which there is EVIDENCE for, it is against the law
2007-08-09 10:05:21 · update #1
tax another good one, thanks
2007-08-09 10:11:12 · update #2
They should remove the tax exempt status from all religion.
2007-08-09 10:05:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would love to see those examples. I scrutinize and debate about religion all the time, that would be why I am in this section right now. And last time I checked the law applies to everybody regardless of religion.
2007-08-09 17:00:00 · answer #2 · answered by draconum321 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Name your examples, then, because I don't believe it IS exempt from debate, scrutiny, and law.
By the way, all non-profit organizations are tax exempt, and so long as a church donates money to charity, they're a non-profit organization.
2007-08-09 16:57:23 · answer #3 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
with the 2008 presidential election basically being a giant religious debate, how is religion exempt from debate?
my Religion allows me (an ordained minister) to preform a marriage ceramony for anyone whom i deem fit to be married.
Yet the Law prevents me from preforming a Marriage for a Homosexual couple..
how is religion exempt from law?
I am Pagan, i am not even going to talk about scrutiny.....
2007-08-09 16:57:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why should people not be allowed to pursue their spirituality as long as it doesn't harm others. People don't have any rights to tell another person what and what they can't believe. It really is no ones business but their own, and it is time people began to leave others alone.
2007-08-09 16:54:43 · answer #5 · answered by Deirdre O 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religions are continually under scrutiny. It's subject to law (remember that people like Jim Bakker went to prison?). It's continually debated in places like this and around the world.
So what was your question?
2007-08-09 16:53:56 · answer #6 · answered by CJ 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Does each person have
Religious freedom or not?
I serve God first, then the government.
Both are Authorities in my life!
That is what the US is founded upon.
Are you suggesting we just kill
religious people. Religion is
a part of who a person IS and
wants to BE!
2007-08-09 16:59:29 · answer #7 · answered by Nickel-for-your-thoughts 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'd like to hear your examples. I'm agnostic myself but think religion does get scrutinized and debated and is part of our legal system.
2007-08-09 16:55:49 · answer #8 · answered by discombobulated 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, I'll bite. If religion is exempt from scrutiny, then how could you possibly be scrutinizing it here?
2007-08-09 16:54:42 · answer #9 · answered by KDdid 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is not exempt in my world.
Jim Baker didn't go to jail because of religion!
and Dr Dino is not being 'persecuted'
Get over it, commit fraud, go to prison. IRS hates that no matter what religion you are.
2007-08-09 16:54:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋