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13. Comment #479709 by mlgatheist
>It is time that all religions lose the exemptions to generally applicable laws everywhere
This issue has been going on for 1000 years. It was in AD1170 that Beckett was murdered, ultimately for wanting to keep his clergy from being tried in secular courts. The church had its own ecclesiastical courts which were much more lenient.
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