Religion or Insanity? Two Upcoming Murder Trials Will Ask the (Burning) Question
…because of this assumption, the “religion or insanity” question often amounts to a game of “heads I win, tails you lose,” in which whatever interests are more established get to make the rules as they go along. There is a larger pattern in which deviant religious groups are deemed insane when they invoke their religious rights while deviant criminals are deemed religious when their lawyers make insanity pleas. Whatever happens in the trials of Dob…
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