[AnActualGirl]

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To a degree, though, Dom, it's not just their old laws in conflict with ours. It's our own laws in conflict with each other. Our first amendment guarantees freedom of religion, so how that resolves with religions whose practices are contrary to our other laws is not always clear.

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It seems pretty clear that all the amendments that guarantee personal freedom - of religion, speech, etc. - are limited to the extent that your right to freedom ends when your actions harm others. You can't publish disparaging lies about a person without being charged with slander, and you can't become a serial killer because killing people makes you happy and you have the freedom to persue your own happiness. The defense of "in my religion, it is ok to kill people for these reasons" is no more valid than a defense of "I personally decided it's ok to kill these people, don't worry about it".

I don't buy the ignorance thing either.