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Originally Posted by MicroBrew
There is a limit to even freedom of speech. Should it be ok to allow charlatans to brainwash people to fork over their money and life?
Why should religion, which can not be scientifically proven get a pass on fraud.
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Exploitation is against the law.
If you basically charge Scientology for the crimes they committed, you take them down. Money laundering. Extortion. You can easily take the religion down by those charges.
If you ban it, you set a disturbing precedent where government is able to ban institutions as they please. If you take them down legally, people see them for who they are, and you don't have that disturbing precedent.
That's why the ACLU defends the KKK and neo-nazis. Not because of what they stand for. But because of the right to organize. In no way is the ACLU not against persecuting groups for legitimate crimes of extortion or violence though.