You know what this country really needs? A good old-fashioned brazen altar
Or at least someone to sincerely propose building one.
The brazen altar was the structure priests like Aaron used in Biblical times to conduct animal sacrifices and offerings, and there are exacting rules for their construction - which would have to be somewhat modified because a proper brazen altar has to be built from Acacia wood, almost all Gum Acacia trees grow in Sudan, and there's a major embargo against trading with Sudan because the government there is ISIS-level evil. There are a number of sacrifice and offering categories, and the Bible describes for each one what kind of animal to use, the parts you have to burn, the parts the priest gets to keep and the parts you can serve to the rest of the town. (Nine whole chapters of Leviticus detail the procedures for animal sacrifice and offering; by contrast, two clear verses in Leviticus - one in Chapter 18 that says homosexuality is an abomination, and one in Chapter 20 that tells you to kill anyone you catch doing it - deal with gayness. BTW the direction to kill gays is on the Holy Hit List between "kill anyone you catch fucking his daughter-in-law" and "kill anyone who marries his own mother-in-law" almost as an afterthought.)
(While we're here: The King James is supposed to be the absolute and inerrant Word Of The Lord. Leviticus 20 very clearly uses the words "daughter-in-law." It seems strange that God would have invented the concept of in-laws. Wouldn't The Lord have told us not to have sex with "the wife of your son"?)
The Levitical process of killing the animals is similar enough to Jewish and Islamic slaughter practices they wouldn't be able to ban it on animal cruelty grounds. And while the Book says nothing about pollution control methods or safety equipment, it also stands mute on the question of whether you could equip a brazen altar with a smoke collector, a spark arrester or tempered glass separating the altar from the parishioners - so let's go on the theory God would be fine with it.
The question is: can you deny someone who sincerely believes his religion requires animal sacrifice and offering the right to practice his faith, while allowing people who sincerely believe their religion requires denying gay people, or women or anyone else, the same rights they have themselves to practice theirs?
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