[GunRunner]

These are guidelines of membership for a private organization. There are no legally binding punishments that the church can hand down that have to be compulsorily followed or carried out by a state. That is a good thing.

If someone is excommunicated from the church and they still show up, they would be prosecuted under trespassing laws, not religious laws.

[annalex]

But that, too, was the case in the time of Galileo also. The Church determined who was and who was not a heretic. The state chose to punish heresy, often by death, because it equated heresy with treason, but the Church’s own punishment was penitential work and, at worst, excommunication.

[campaignPete R-CT]

The Monarchists are coming! The Monarchists are coming!

Don’t worry, GunRunner. When the Monarchists make their comeback, they won’t be coming to the U.S. America will rediscover its roots as a constitutional republic.

In the meantime, the egalitarian revolution is doing wonders for this country, isn’t it?