Though you have completely ignored the point that this discussion has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with bigotry on the part of Michelle Bachmann and the other advocates in her camp, you are right that people can follow what tenets they will so long as they do not fall outside the law. You are incorrect in that we should give them a pass when they claim they are of this creed or that creed, but fail to live up to the creed’s doctrine. They should be challenged publicly and openly. They should be made to defend their heresy, before they are allowed to continue attacking the beliefs of others.
You are incorrect on a significantly larger scale that we should make extra legal accommodations for the practice of religion under any circumstance. The law has enough loopholes and too many people who see it as only a suggestion of how to live, we don’t need to explicitly allow people not to obey it so they can practice religion. What you are suggesting would’ve given Warren Jeffs and David Koresh the right to seek exemptions. Even more so than with talking heads who like the sound of their own voice we should examine and discuss with the highest level of fervor those who claim they don’t have to follow the written law because it inconveniently restricts certain practices in the religion they only partially follow in the first place.
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