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When the 1st Session of the 111TH Congress passed HR 3962 (Affordable Health Care for America Act), I had a few comments on its content.  The Senate has voted to debate HR 3590 (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act).  Like HR 3962, state sponsored superstition has crept in.  Purchasing health insurance is required of everyone – everyone except those who are “a member of an exempt religious sect or division.”  But those exempt must be “an adherent of established tenets or teachings of such sect or division.”  Sounds like the State has been given the responsibility of establishing if you are an adherent of your religious sect or if you’re just pretending.  Maybe pretending so you pay less taxes.  Leaving it up to the State to determine what a ‘real’ religion is, who is and is not a member, is something many countries do.  So far in the United States this has not been the case.  Perhaps things are changing.  One less Amendment in the Constitution to worry about.