Your post #504 as follows:
Not according to the state - that pesky "freedom of religion" thing again. There are sects of Christianity whose parishioners handle poisonous snakes - if we allow the state to pick up the check for a statue of the Ten Commandments, we also have to let somebody inclined to do so to erect a monument to a timber rattler or copperhead as well. Now who brought up snake handlers first Strela?
a simple "I (Strela)did" will suffice.