Kraichgauer wrote:
Sylkat wrote:
'Snake Handling', like Santeria and Voudon and Palo Mayombe animal sacrifice is allowed/protected by the American Constitution.
Freedom to believe in/practice religion is a basic American legal right.
Mutual respect of each other also means respecting what someone chooses to believe.
Sylkat
But in certain southern states, snake handling has been deemed illegal.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
They might as well let anyone over 18 and not subject to conservatorship do it. Natural selection is best done in a contained environment. The protections mentioned in the Bible were never meant to cover deliberately drinking all manner of dangerous chemicals and passing around threatened and pissed off cobras...all for show! I wish I had a link to an old story of one of these preachers that ended up in the hospital from attempting to drink a little of a nitric acid solution!
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"Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars."
- Unknown
"A fear of weapons is a sign of ret*d sexual and emotional maturity."
-Sigmund Freud