Religious Freedom. When faith overcomes common sense

This post started out with the title: "Children murdered for God. Religious Freedom. Gotta Love it." Then I decided that most theists wouldn't have the balls (Figuratively) to read a link with that title.

I tend to wander around the web, going where my mouse points me, This is a small part of that wandering.

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This is where I started;  When Faith Healing Becomes Faith Killing

According to the national non-profit Children’s Healthcare is a Legal Duty (CHILD), thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia have religious exemptions from providing medical care for sick kids – many more lenient than the law being considered by the Tennessee Supreme Court. Three US states (Idaho, Iowa, and Ohio) offer parents a religious defense to manslaughter; West Virginia offers a religious defense to murder of a child and child neglect resulting in death; and Arkansas provides parents a religious defense to capital murder.

A few stops along the way;  Faith healing or faith killing?

DeGues-Morris says she hasn't done an autopsy on a Followers of Christ child in years, because in Idaho it's not illegal for a parent or guardian to choose prayer over medicine as treatment for a sick child. Idaho statute 18-1501 outlines the law that a parent who "chooses...treatment by prayer...shall not...have violated the duty of care to such child.   Dying for religion: 'They use fear - that's their main weapon' | KBOI"
Dying for Religion: Part 2 | KBOI

Victims of religion-based medical neglect

Fallen followers: Investigation finds 10 more dead children of faith healers | KATU
 
WOW,a  double header Pennsylvania parents sentenced in second faith-healing death - The Washington Post
**********UPDATE:  Lenient Prison Sentence of 31/5 to 7 years upheld for Faith-Healing Parents Who Killed Two of Their Children***********
 
Faces of the fallen | KATU.com

Religion-related medical neglect |
 
Silent Cries The Faces Of Religious Abuse

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   I had to stop. Whether it was disgust or a feeling of extreme sadness, I had to stop. I hope that those people that extol prayer as the be all, end all, consider that the murderers in those articles were committed to the same. Maybe more so.

Religious freedom? Do you really think it includes letting children die?

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