I agree with Tom C's last comments. To those who have raised the "freedom of religion" issue with regard to a group's preaching/proselytizing I would only add this: the concept and exercise of Freedom of Religion is indeed a wonderful thing. However, for those who take Christ's command to "Go therefore and preach" personally upon themselves, their responsibility is no less in a country that has no such constitutional protections. Like the apostles of Jesus' day that were ordered by the Jewish Sanhedrin (High Court) to stop preaching, they would answer: "We must obey God as ruler, rather than men." (Acts 5:29) A Christian is under a scriptural obligation to obey the secular rulers in all things, EXCEPT those that would require them to break a command from a Higher Authority.
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