[Saya]

Originally Posted by Entropic

Trust me when I say I don't disbelieve you.

However, there isn't enough information for me to say that this requires a law to rectify.

I agree with you that the yhave no business portraying themselves as medical clinics. However, if I accept that they can't portray themselves as medical clinics, then I have to extend that to holistic healers, faith healers, and all sorts of other groups. If we're going to force religious organizations to put up signs saying what they don't do, then I think it is only fair to force other people, like vegans without medical degrees who call themselves dieticians or holistic healers without a medicla degree, to do the same.

In the end, I don't think that is what people want.

Actually it is illegal to pose at a dietitian when you are not one. You can say you're a nutritionalist since its not a registered profession, but a dietitian is. Its not even a matter of posting a sign, you can't practice as a dietician at all. If anything this law is being fairly lenient with them.

Churches aren't like any other organization, though. That's why I brought up the seperation of church and state in my original post. Churches need to be treated differently than most organizations, because of the special protections under law. These protections exist to protect both the church from society, and society from the church. Crossing that line by forcing church run organizations to post signs, even if it's to fight "false advertising" is a very dangerous venture.

How is not then protecting society (especially women who need help) from the church, then? This is exactly what the law does, it gives the women the knowledge that the building they are going into is not Planned Parenthood or any sort of clinic.

In the end, these signs may be completely warranted. I haven't seen the information to justify it, which is why I'm heistant to support this.

Read the info then, and keep in mind what Solumina said too, how can you protect a church's rights if they are pretending their organizations are secular, anyway?

We should test and see if they genuinely believe their false advertisement, because that differientates how they should be handled.

If someone's false advertisement harms other people, or gets in the way of people getting real medical attention, it doesn't matter whether they believe in it or not.