In this state you can't buy a cigarette without an ID.

Without an ID you can you grow weed, get an abortion, vote, get a job, demand a same-sex wedding cake, change your gender, inject drugs, organize a violent mob, throw trash on the streets, and drive a car.

These are the freedoms being defended in Oregon courts. The price of cigarette continues to skyrocket, and that is a money-grabbing crime for a plant that grows so easily in this country.

I am sorry the shopkeeper was attacked, hurt, and disrespected so bad. Nobody deserves that kind of treatment, regardless of their faith. It it was a women, her wig could have been pulled off. If it was a Muslim, the burka would have been ripped off. Bad things happen whenever you get into a fight with an irate customer. It goes with the territory when selling harmful, addictive, expensive drugs. Protection is a necessity for this type of job.

Having empathy for other religions is difficult, especially when certain foreign customs are virtually unknown to locals in this bizarre land called Oregon. Caste systems with outwardly visual appearance as a sign of higher status are not very well respected in a country that honors fallen warriors who fought to embrace equality. Normally religion cannot be forced on anyone legally, but the courts here only enforce separation of church and state when it involves Christianity, because it is the religion of white supremacist, nazi facist, homophobic bigots.