Finally, A Solution To The DMCA

morcego writes: "Well, finally someone came up with a solution to the DMCA problem. You can read it on the archive of the Humorix list." Well, combine this with my ULC Reverendship, and we're well underway *grin*.

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[viper21]

The article in question can be found here

Hope this helps out. I always hate it when we slashdot a story this quickly.

Re:Protected religious practices

[fishebulb]

actually they can on following certain laws, such as only on reservations etc.

Re:cause I can not remember

[UberOogie]

It depends.

In most cases (in America), you cannot break the law in the name of religion. Aztecs cannot sacrifice people, Mormons can't practice polygamy, White Power churches cannot lynch people and violate civil rights, Branch Davidians couldn't violate gun laws and practice statutory rape (depending on who you believe).

However, there are a lot of exceptions, mostly cultural. Amish are except from certain mandatory schooling laws. Native tribes are excempt from prohibitions against hunting endangered animals. Underage Cattholics can drink alcohol as part of services.

Re:Seperation of Church and State

[Anonymous Coward]

The founding fathers did not have a problem with state sponsored religions, most of them were deeply religous men. At the time the Constitution was written several of the original states had official religions. The purpose of the 'separation of church and state' clause was to prevent the Federal government from sponsoring a religion.

Official state religions slowly withered away in the years following the signing of the Constitution. Now people who have no knowledge of why that clause exists in the Constitution believe it means something totally orthogonal to its original meaning. Welcome to Amerika.

Re:Freedom of Religion?

[digitalboi]

Foolish me, but i thought the Second Amendment of the US Constitution pertained to the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

Re:cause I can not remember

[coldmist]

Please notice your examples and how they break down into two major camps: Ones that violate someone else's rights and ones that don't.

Killing someone (even in Religion's name) is violating that person's right to life (whether it be voluntary or not is another question). Whereas an "underage" person taking the sacrament in the Catholic church is not violating anyone else's rights.

Classic quote by Frederic Bastiat in The Law (1850):

No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree. The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. These two evils are of equal consequence, and it would be difficult for a person to choose between them. The nature of law is to maintain justice. This is so much the case that, in the minds of the people, law and justice are one and the same thing. There is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are "just" because law makes them so.