[Cowperson]

[quote=Cheese] Choice within a countries laws....like it is the choice within Canada for Gays to marry. I may not agree with what or how China governs itself, but it is within its rights to create rules and laws.

I disagree actually. If they haven't stood before an electorate then we are not talking about a "country being within its rights to create rules and laws." Instead, we are talking about "a narrow few" determining what is right and wrong.

You can make your statement about a legitimate democracy, but you can't make it about China.

I personally could care less about a bunch of Christians, Mormans, Islamics or Mudpuckers having a big ole Kumbayah....but IF they feel they are above Politics then whats to stop them from getting involved in it later as they brain wash the masses?

Nothing should stop them from expressing their viewpoint and putting forward candidates representing their interests. They're a legitimate special interest group with the right to express their viewpoint just as any other special interest group has that right, including the atheists and agnostics who would be opposed to their gaining influence.

You don't see me wringing my hands because radical Islamists were elected in Palestine . . . . . so long as they face a second and third election down the road where the people can turf them if they're unhappy about policies leaning towards hard core religion.

If we can question it as a sham...then a government should surely have the right to determine it is just that.

No. That would violate the concept of separation of church and state.

Cowperson