[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

That said, so-called "faith healing" (healing or resurrection ^because^ of the faith of another) went away with the last of the Apostles.

[cuban leaf]

That said, so-called “faith healing” (healing or resurrection ^because^ of the faith of another) went away with the last of the Apostles.

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Since I’ve experienced it, I’ll have to disagree on that one. However, your quoting of the constitution is where I am coming from on this. It is none of our business. They are not our children.

Now, if the parents are actively killing them, that is a different matter.

[rwfromkansas]

When religion injures another, that’s when it is fine to step in....we would not allow parents to sacrifice their children, and we should not allow them to murder them by failure to act.

As for faith healing, special healing has ceased. But, God can still heal miraculously, just not in the faith healer way.

[Lurking Libertarian]

"Parents may be free to become martyrs themselves. But it does not follow they are free, in identical circumstances, to make martyrs of their children before they have reached the age of full and legal discretion when they can make that choice for themselves."--Prince v. Massachusetts (U.S. Supreme Court 1944).

[driftdiver]

If my religion allows human sacrifice does it mean I can do it?