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To: Mrs. Don-o
“So that's my general attitude: as long as there's no force or fraud, let these religious groups live their lives by their own best practices-— not yours.”

As long as those practices are not seen as conflicting with the constitution & the laws of the land. In this case, the claim to exclusive ancestral rights on the temple was rejected & the temple then goes under the control of the state government which appoints as per their rules. Specific rules could have continued only if that right of control was upheld.

20 posted on 07/29/2014 5:50:48 AM PDT by cold start
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To: cold start
"As long as those practices are not seen as conflicting with the constitution & the laws of the land."

Oh, to be sure. And as long as the constitution does not conflict with Natural Law. Because: all men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; among these are the Rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness; and it is to secure these rights that governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."

I don't see how government seizure of a temple of religion, and the re-writing of their rituals, doctrines and customs, accords with Natural Law.

Certainly positive law -- the laws of the state --- cannot be supreme. That is the premise of totalitarianism.

21 posted on 07/29/2014 7:16:27 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Without justice, what is the State but a great band of robbers?" - St. Augustine of Hippo)
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