re: #55 Turnabout is Fair Play

If someone physically vandalized someone else’s ancestor’s grave, or physically tried to “baptize” someone, even without an attempt at an automatic conversion - your examples above - that would be illegal. Because that’s physical interference with people and property. This violates the principles of autonomy.

With these rites we’re talking about mere speech, without any physical interference. They may be offensive to the extreme, but they don’t actually interfere with anyone’s rights, because they don’t signify anything that’s provably real. They don’t change reality. That’s an expression of a religious opinion. As such, in the US it is protected.