RE: Religious exemption valid?
September 5, 2021 at 10:43 am
(This post was last modified: September 5, 2021 at 10:48 am by The Grand Nudger.)
So long as it neither picks my pocket or breaks my legs. Religious exemptions aren't (or aren't currently seen to be) universally valid in all applications. Then again, we've got a heap of black robed mystics on the bench..so that can change quick.
If you show up in court asserting that your religion demanded you sacrifice a virgin girl to a volcano - the court isn't even going to consider whether that belief is genuine because it doesn't matter if it is. May as well proceed directly to jail. You do have to wonder..if the judge and the jury were all members of the volcano cult - if the process and outcome would be different. Maybe he'd get a fine, paid to her father or oldest brother or pimp or whatever?
If you show up in court asserting that your religion demanded you sacrifice a virgin girl to a volcano - the court isn't even going to consider whether that belief is genuine because it doesn't matter if it is. May as well proceed directly to jail. You do have to wonder..if the judge and the jury were all members of the volcano cult - if the process and outcome would be different. Maybe he'd get a fine, paid to her father or oldest brother or pimp or whatever?
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