• futatorius@lemm.ee
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    7 hours ago

    Try to legislate that rite is a violation of that separation.

    No. Secular law takes precedent. For example, a religion practicing human sacrifice, cannibalism, rape or slavery would be shut down, and rightly so.

    Separation of church and state means that laws are not made that explicity refer to religious practices. But that does not imply that any aspect of religious practice is above the law.

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      7 hours ago

      Secular law takes precedent. For example, a religion practicing human sacrifice, cannibalism, rape or slavery would be shut down, and rightly so.

      I do cover that in a later comment.

      Confession and its confidentiality has already been upheld in legal precedent.