easymoney101 -- a very important and on-target post, imo -- thanks -- though I'd have stated his last point just a bit differently -- I say they make themselves into fair game that the rest of us must openly, strongly and resolutely oppose and stop, no matter how religiously tolerant the rest of us may be, when they cross that profoundly significant line, from having the freedom of their own personal religious beliefs, to hijacking and destructively transforming the public laws and institutions of what has been our shared secular constitutional republic into those of an openly fascist fundamentalist theocracy that enforces their religious beliefs and dogmas and punishes the rest of us who dare have other personal beliefs -- without any contradiction of religious tolerance, it is always and properly open season on any religious zealots looking to conquer the rest of us by taking over the state and remaking it, and the conditions of the lives of the rest of us, in the image of their own chosen religious beliefs and dogmas