Saturday, April 5, 2008

Finding the limits of our religious fervor

Tolerance has its limits. Intolerance has its place. Even those on the religious right can find a place where their god just won't go. Like this compound in Texas - home to a fundamentalist sect that broke off from LDS and in the course of freely exercising its religion, molests underage girls. They're married off, or used as wifely prototypes from their pre-teen years - at least that's part of what led authories to take nearly 200 people from the compound.

Stories like these should make us more honest about just how far we'll push the First Amendment. I like having limits. I like that we'll admit we have limits. 'Cause this kinda stuff is just wrong.

Now, what about Scientology?

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