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Originally posted by taxwonk
It's disturbing, but not unprecedented. Take, for example, the Christian Scientists and Jehovah's Witnesses claiming they have the religious right to deny medical treatment to their minor children.
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I agree it's not unprecedented. But it is abhorrent, regardless of the religion that is advocating it.
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It's also no more objectionable in a purely abstract sense than the Wingnuts in Kansas and elsewhere who want to take evolution out of the textbooks.
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I disagree with this, as Kansas is trying to do that to all public school students. As a practical matter, that is certainly a worse thing. As a matter of creating (or destroying) a society, it isn't, because you aren't saying that different people are subject to different laws. A better analogy would be if the Kansas-kooks advocated for a law that Christian teachers could legally be stoned for teaching evolution.
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I find the notion abhorrent, but I freely admit that it's because I find Sharia to be abhorrent.
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I find it more abhorrent for that reason.
