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Any group, no matter how much they love themselves, which acts to destroy the absolute wall of separation between church and state, is acting anti-constitutionally and deserves reprimand, curbing and even expulsion from America.
All religion is voluntary, so says god himself. If god allows freewill to choose or refuse, who may put themselves above that?
The 3,000,000 founders of America had a moment to decide if they wanted America to be a religious state and which religion should be dominant over all others. They refused to coerce people to accept a state-dictated religion and erected a wall of separation where all religions may be persuasive and use their freedoms to entice followership, but no single religion would ever dominate and use the power of the state to enforce their beliefs coercively.
Catholics have to accept their role as equal among equals. They have no special rights that do not exist also for everybody else. Catholics cannot use the force of law to compel people to live a catholic lifestyle.
Any person whom is catholic may quit being a catholic. There are no compulsory religions allowed inside these borders. If catholics cannot use persuasion then they have to learn to accept their failure in the free marketplace of ideas where many religion have come and gone.
The history of the catholic church is not a secret. When King Ferdinand waved goodbye to Columbus on his first voyage in 1492, Spain was developing the Spanish Inquisition. The Spanish Inquisition was not formally disbanded until 1776. For the founders of America this was not old history -- it was current events. It was with the Spanish Inquisition in mind that a wall of separation was required before colonies founded by diverse religions could trust each other enough to fuse into America.
FREEDOM OF RELIGION was FREEDOM FROM COERCIVE RELIGION. Nobody can freely follow their faith if the state is forcing a different religion down your throats at the point of a gun. FREEDOM has always meant free-from-coercion. It means that you can do what you want free from the state and the mob dictating upon you.
Religion, by definition means a personal relationship with the divine. It does not mean businesses, schools, hospitals, charities, things licensed as businesses under the business code of the law. Nobody is obligated to go into business, but everybody who goes into business follows the same laws. If your organization is required to have a business license, it is a business, not a religion. You have to accept the laws and live within them, or get out of here. You may not use businesses to undermine the separation of church and state. You may not undermine the separation of church and state. You may not undermine the state. You may not overthrow the state and replace it with religious laws.
You have to admit all these truths in public and teach your children accordingly. You may not coerce here. Your religion fails if it cannot gather followers who choose it freely.
