The Satanic Temple opened a second telehealth abortion facility to provide what it describes as religious abortion services, as the group believes that deliberately ending a pregnancy is part of a
Write exceptions for religious sacraments into law? Outlaw abortion ostensibly as a secular matter? Fine, abortion is now a sacrament for our religion.
It forces a dillema upon courts and the state:
Tolerate a legal loophole for abortion, which may spread out of control.
Write in more specific exceptions to religeous freedom, and open a legal can of worms with the Constitution.
Explicitly codify the law for “recognized” religions like specific forms of Christianity, instead of doing it with a wink an a nod while acting like its for all religions. This is also a can of worms.
I didn’t know about this aspect of the Satanic Temple until this year, and now I absolutely love it. It makes me want to join, if only to throw a monkey wrench in the aspects of religion that have crept into law.
I love this as a “society hack.”
Write exceptions for religious sacraments into law? Outlaw abortion ostensibly as a secular matter? Fine, abortion is now a sacrament for our religion.
It forces a dillema upon courts and the state:
Tolerate a legal loophole for abortion, which may spread out of control.
Write in more specific exceptions to religeous freedom, and open a legal can of worms with the Constitution.
Explicitly codify the law for “recognized” religions like specific forms of Christianity, instead of doing it with a wink an a nod while acting like its for all religions. This is also a can of worms.
I didn’t know about this aspect of the Satanic Temple until this year, and now I absolutely love it. It makes me want to join, if only to throw a monkey wrench in the aspects of religion that have crept into law.
The people arguing against abortion have no issue with tearing down the separation of church and state, as long as it’s their religion.
Yes, but to do so explicitly pulls the curtain away.
And makes court cases much harder, or impossible, to argue.