When Does

     Government

        Step In?

The First Amendment is supposed to protect the free exercise of religion, but two recent cases raise the question of whether some beliefs are better protected than others.

On May 29, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that the State Family and Protective Services had improperly seized 150 children from the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints' yearning for Zion Ranch.

Family and Protective Services cited the religious group's belief in polygamy and underage marriage as an immediate threat to the safety of all the children...Read more

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