re: #716 Obdicut

Yeah, I know. I’m looking beyond this case here.

My point is that to me, the reverence for the dead appears mostly religious in nature whether the dead are 6000 years dead, or just an hour.

I fully agree there needs to be a sensible rule. I just think that you’re overlooking that almost all of the ways we deal with dead bodies are, already, religious. And the government does make specifically religious accommodation in terms of burial rites, and I don’t think anyone really should have a big problem with that.

I don’t think I’m overlooking, in that offhand comment I basically expressed my opinion on what I see as a more reasonable compromise. And if you say that other people have other opinions, that’s also correct.

The main (counter-)point I was making throughout though is that not bowing to religious claims is not the same as infringing on one’s freedom of religion. This is a separate point from whether a state can or should accomodate such viewpoints.