Doh!
"So, what's me point?" I bet you're asking about now.
And there is a point hidden somewhere in this purple haze......
A religion need not be sanctified by man's law in order to have merit, imo.
And I consider God's law's to trump those of man's every time. So, I don't reach for the cloak of religion to shelter myself from the law. Instead, I pick it up to protect it from being stomped into the mud by the powers -who-be.