That's what I'm saying. That after the Elizabeth Smart incident, and given our history with the KKK, face masks should be illegal except for narrow time/place exceptions (in a play, for instance).
Sounds like a war on Halloween.
No, because (1) there are plenty of disguises that don't use masks, (2) private parties can use burkhas, sheet-heads or whatever, and (3) communities can craft time/place exemptions for Halloween and another 1-day holidays, though I would not recommend it in a big city.
There should be no religious exception to health codes, health plans, immunization, or any other law of the land.
I disagree. Conscientious objectors, allowing Catholics and Native Americans to take their sacraments despite alcohol and drug laws. And compulsive immunization in conjunction with Congress' law that you cannot sue a vaccine company for brain damage due to the vaccine is a third/fifth/Ninth amendment violation as well as an authoritarian atrocity.
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The correct answer in any of these cases, is to make everyone free to make those choices, not just those who can use their religion as a shield.[/quote]
That makes sense for immunization, but not for sacramental drug and alcohol exceptions, because the religious structure is not only a "shield" against the law, but a structural safeguard. Taking mescaline in a formal sacramental community involves having people there to take care of you, and allowing a 12 year old Catholic to sip the communion wine under the priest's supervision avoids abuse as well. If you're saying that a nonreligious organization should be able to create similar safe settings, I'm OK with that, but it still exists because of the religious precedent.
This essentially means that if you can let some people back out of a law (like letting Catholics drink a glass of wine) then averyone should get to have a glass.
It's not a glass; it's a sip, and it's supervised. if one has to change the facts to fit the argument, it's not a good argument.

I grew up in Mexico where kids are allowed to purchase liquor, and it's not a nice picture. The kids whose parents had carefully monitored and given bits of alcohol to when younger, like a small cup of wine at dinner, or a sip of communion wine, were generally the ones who didn't screw up. The ones whose parents didn't set any rules were the worst, and in middle ground were those who like my parents set absolute restrictions, no alcohol at all.