Texas Exorcism Case

In this article the author talks about how the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case of a woman who says that a forced traumatic exorcism was performed on her for hours. She says the exorcism left her physically bruised and emotionally scarred. The court “denies the claim of serious misconduct because it doesn’t wish to be entangled in a religious controversy.”Laura Schubert Pearson’s attorney filed an appeal arguing that Texas Supreme Court was wrong in tossing out her case against the Pleasant Glade Assembly of God in Colleyville. The author claims that the court is wrong for dismissing this case. He says “By voiding the judgment against Pleasant Glade, the Supreme Court majority made it more difficult to find the line between acceptable and unacceptable religious practice. If physically restraining someone against her will for hours isn’t cause for legal action, what is?” The author explains that she was abused and that “should not be excused because it occurred under the color of religion.” He also supports his claim by saying how the First Amendment doesn’t authorize abuse under religion’s name; it only guards religious liberty.
I completely agree with the author of this article. In my opinion, assault should not be protected by religious beliefs. That is no excuse for someone not to be held accountable for. This girl was only 17 at the time, not even an adult. What this church did was wrong and even more so what the court didn’t do was wrong.