>>Riiight - but you keep comparing the two like they're related somehow so the discrepancies are meaningless.
Of course they're related: both involve coercion. Smokers want to smoke. Bishops want to live according to their deeply held convictions. When is it appropriate for the state to overrule? As I said earlier, a good place to start is to ask "where is the victim".
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
