We are supposed to respect every religion but what if that religion believes in human sacrifice as does Judiasm, Islam, and Christianity and others? hmmmmmmm what does that say about the first amendment?

Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment wikipedia
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“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof... ”

In 1878, the Supreme Court was first called to interpret the extent of the Free Exercise Clause in Reynolds v. United States, as related to the prosecution of polygamy under federal law. The Supreme Court upheld Mr. Reynolds' conviction for bigamy, deciding that to do otherwise would provide constitutional protection for a gamut of religious beliefs, including those as extreme as human sacrifice. The Court said (at page 162): "Congress cannot pass a law for the government of the Territory which shall prohibit the free exercise of religion. The first amendment to the Constitution expressly forbids such legislation." Of federal territorial laws, the Court said: "Laws are made for the government of actions, and while they cannot interfere with mere religious beliefs and opinions, they may with practices."

Jehovah's Witnesses were often the target of such restriction. Several cases involving the Witnesses gave the Court the opportunity to rule on the application of the Free Exercise Clause. Subsequently, the Warren Court adopted an expansive view of the clause, the "compelling interest" doctrine (whereby a state must show a compelling interest in restricting religion-related activities), but later decisions have reduced the scope of this interpretation.

Reynolds v. United States
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The Mormons, believing that the law unconstitutionally deprived them of their First Amendment right to freely practice their religion, chose to ignore Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act at the time. On the other hand, in subsequent years, efforts had been underway to strengthen the anti-bigamy laws. Eventually, amid the efforts to indict the LDS leadership for bigamy, the First Presidency agreed to furnish a defendant in a test case to be brought before the United States Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of the anti-bigamy law. Reynolds, a secretary in the office of the President of the Church, agreed to serve as the defendant, then provided the attorney numerous witnesses who could testify of his being married to two wives, and was indicted for bigamy by a grand jury on October 23, 1874. In 1875, Reynolds was convicted and sentenced to two years hard labor in prison and a fine of five hundred dollars. In 1876 the Utah Territorial Supreme Court upheld the sentence.

Previously, U.S. Attorney William Carey promised to stop his attempts to indict general authorities during the test case. However when Carey failed keep his promise and arrested George Q. Cannon, the LDS church leaders decided that they would no longer cooperate with him. Reynolds v. United States appeal. [1])

Death of Kenneth Pinyan wikipedia
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Death
Prosecutors later determined that the horse, an Arabian stallion, had not been injured by being allowed to engage in sex in this manner. The photographer, 54-year-old James Michael Tait of Enumclaw,[9] was later charged with trespassing, since this act took place on a third party's property. A third man alleged to have been present was not charged. According to the Medical Examiner's Office, Pinyan "died of acute peritonitis due to perforation of the colon",[10] and the death was ruled accidental.[11]

Other factors surrounding the death were apparently that the deceased, concerned about appearing in a hospital with an unusual internal injury and the effect on his security clearance as an engineer for aerospace company Boeing, had apparently refused his friends' urging to go to the hospital for several hours after being aware he was internally injured, and was dead when he finally reached the ER.[10]

Media reports at the time of the trial suggested that despite seizing and examining carefully a large number of such videos from the property, no evidence of injury to the horses was found, precluding animal cruelty charges, and that the trespass charge against Tait were brought due to lack of grounds for any other matter:

This is a very perverted video and very real, if you don't have the stomach for it, please don't watch it. (I just wanted to show it as I think people ought to be aware of what goes on in the 'REAL' world with the elites in charge.) I was especially interested when I read what this guy did for a living. Hmmmmmmmm, he worked at Boeing???
Horse and man video

Samantha's reaction to Mr. Hands. HYSTERICAL!!!!

Douglas Spink arrested beastiality farm in Washington state news video in article
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SEATTLE -- A convicted cocaine smuggler has been arrested for running what authorities say appears to be a bestiality farm in Washington state in which visitors could engage in all sorts of twisted sex acts with animals.

First Amendment
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Public schools may not inculcate nor inhibit religion. They must be places where religion and religious conviction are treated with fairness and respect.

Public schools uphold the First Amendment when they protect the religious-liberty rights of students of all faiths or none. Schools demonstrate fairness when they ensure that the curriculum includes study about religion as an important part of a complete education.

Animal sacrifice in America
by Brandon Bosworth January 02, 2010 03:37 PM (PT) Topics: Animal Abuse

On Sunday, December 27, the bodies of hundreds of animals were found in a Philadelphia home. Among the dead were cats, dogs, deer, sheep, goats, and turtles. The animals are believed to have been killed as part of some sort of Santeria rituals. According to the UPI, George Bengal of the Pennsylvania SPCA said Santeria cultists "usually take the skull and the feet and the blood and drain the blood from the animal. They'll drink the blood and use the skull and feet as part of the altar." In addition to the staggering number of animal corpses, two emaciated dogs and an AK-47 were found on the property.

The owner of the home -- rumored to currently be in Mexico -- has not been found. What punishment awaits those responsible for the slaughter of countless animals in the name of religion? Hardly any punishment at all. The caretaker of the two abused dogs faces citations related to lack of veterinary care and unsanitary confinement. Each citation -- two for each dog -- carries a $750 fine. If it can be proven that cats and dogs were killed, then there may be misdemeanor animal-cruelty charges.

For the most part, animal sacrifice is perfectly legal in the U.S. In 1993, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. Hialeah that sacrificing animals in the name of religion is protected under the First Amendment. It was a unanimous decision. Efforts to curb or restrict animal sacrifice have not been particularly successful in the wake of the 1993 verdict. For example, in the summer of 2009 the right of a Texas Santeria priest to sacrifice animals (usually goats) was upheld by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. According to the Santeria practitioner in the case, Jose Merced, "You cannot do initiations without an animal with four legs. You cannot do it with just chickens. Without that, the religion ceases to exist."

Santeria is certainly not the only religion to feature animal sacrifice. The Old Testament of Jews and Christians contains frequent references to killing animals in God's name. Some Muslims sacrifice a sheep to mark the end of the Hajj. Hindus in Nepal recently slaughtered 200,000 buffaloes, goats, chickens and pigeons as part of a religious festival honoring one of their deities. Yet is all this killing and bloodshed morally acceptable just because religion is involved?

In some Chinese Taoist folk tales, after death a person is confronted with the spirits of all the living things -- both animal and human -- he or she harmed in life. These spirits sit in judgement of the deceased. That is a spiritual tradition I can accept, not one in which "the religion ceases to exist" without killing.

Human sacrifice
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Christianity
In the Christian religion the belief developed that the story of Isaac's binding and of Jepthah's virgin daughter were foreshadowing for the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, and whose sacrifice and resurrection allowed the sins of mankind to be washed away. There is a tradition that the site of the binding of Isaac, Moriah, was also the city of Jesus's future crucifixion.[69]

The beliefs of most denominations of Christianity hinge upon a single, specific human sacrifice: that of Christ. Christians believe that in order to gain access to paradise in the afterlife each individual person must somehow become a partaker in that all-important human sacrifice for the atonement of their personal sins. Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christians believe that they participate in the sacrifice of Calvary through the Eucharist, which they believe is really the body and blood of Jesus Christ that they eat and drink.[70][71] Many Protestants, however, reject this, and believe rather that the bread and wine of communion are merely symbolic. Although early Christians in the Roman Empire were accused of being cannibals,[72] practices such as human sacrifice were abhorrent to them.[73]

Did God sacrifice Jesus (that must mean he believed in human sacrifice then, eh?)
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Jesus our High Priest forevermore died so we could be set free from eternal death. God saw fit to make the sacrifice of His only Son, Jesus Christ, as a seed sown for the harvest of our souls for eternity and so we could be redeemed into the family of God.

Sacrifice Israel
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Final thought

Theistic religions in one way or another were founded upon ritualized murder. What made children susceptible to sacrifice, was their virginity and their innocence. This concept is embedded in Judaism and Christianity to this day.

Paradoxically, child sacrifice ended when Judah was captured by the hated Babylonians in 586 BCE. Jews don't practice their canonical obligation to sacrifice anymore, but there is still one remaining legacy where they celebrate child sacrifice every year. And that is the Passover when Yahweh killed firstborn Egyptians and their firstborn livestock. To ease their conscience they label it as their release from Egyptian bondage.

24You shall observe this rite as an ordinance for you and for your sons for ever.
25And when you come to the land which the LORD will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service.
26And when your children say to you, 'What do you mean by this service?'
27you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he slew the Egyptians but spared our houses.'" And the people bowed their heads and worshiped. (Ex. 12:24-27)

Christians may feel that their religion is above such barbarous practices. That is only because they have been dulled into ignoring the immorality of the torturous sacrifice of one innocent man.

Death of Kenneth Pinyan wikipedia
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Death
Prosecutors later determined that the horse, an Arabian stallion, had not been injured by being allowed to engage in sex in this manner. The photographer, 54-year-old James Michael Tait of Enumclaw,[9] was later charged with trespassing, since this act took place on a third party's property. A third man alleged to have been present was not charged. According to the Medical Examiner's Office, Pinyan "died of acute peritonitis due to perforation of the colon",[10] and the death was ruled accidental.[11]

Other factors surrounding the death were apparently that the deceased, concerned about appearing in a hospital with an unusual internal injury and the effect on his security clearance as an engineer for aerospace company Boeing, had apparently refused his friends' urging to go to the hospital for several hours after being aware he was internally injured, and was dead when he finally reached the ER.[10]

Media reports at the time of the trial suggested that despite seizing and examining carefully a large number of such videos from the property, no evidence of injury to the horses was found, precluding animal cruelty charges, and that the trespass charge against Tait were brought due to lack of grounds for any other matter:

This is a very perverted video and very real, if you don't have the stomach for it, please don't watch it. (I just wanted to show it as I think people ought to be aware of what goes on in the 'REAL' world with the elites in charge.) I was especially interested when I read what this guy did for a living. Hmmmmmmmm, he worked at Boeing???

Horse and man video

Douglas Spink arrested beastiality farm in Washington state news video in article
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SEATTLE -- A convicted cocaine smuggler has been arrested for running what authorities say appears to be a bestiality farm in Washington state in which visitors could engage in all sorts of twisted sex acts with animals.