>I just thought it amusing that you are against door-to-door peddling of a belief (I am too by the way,) but would want laws made to support your beliefs that children should be protected against organized religion.

I think it's you this time who's not getting it. I don't mean laws that would force society into such a shape - that'd be putting the cart in front of the horse. I'd like to see the society to evolve in such a way that such a law would only acknowledge the common practice.

And you may note that even in this layout the religion still has a lot of chance - if it's so good, the young people of age of consent will join of their own free will. The opponents of religion would have their argument, that churches are robbing cradles, snatched out of their hands. And I gather that an institution with a couple of millenia of practice can be very persuasive, and shouldn't be afraid of approaching the minds of those who have learned to think for themselves.