Religious freedom is very important to many.

Recently we have seen people refuse service to Gay people because of the proprietor’s strongly held religious beliefs which are then supported, often with money, by those who defend the actions as those based on religious conscience.

State legislatures have passed, or soon will pass, legislation in certain states that would allow citizens to ignore laws that they consider to be in conflict with their religious beliefs.

State leaders, like governors and attorneys general, have even advised employees of their courts that they do not have to follow the Supreme Court’s decision on marriage equality if they feel that obeying the law goes against their religious beliefs.

Hobby Lobby won a court case against the Affordable Care Act’s provisions on contraceptives because of the corporation’s owners’ deeply held religious belief.

So it would appear, or at least it can be safely assumed, that those who demand that their religious beliefs be respected and that these beliefs allow them to disregard laws, would respect the religious beliefs of everyone.

You would think.

But the good Christians of Farmersville, Texas, have a problem with the plan of the Islamic Association of Collin County to have a cemetery placed on undeveloped land that it owns there.

Citizens of the town of 3,000 attended a city council meeting to object.

Among the reasons for their objections was the claim that the cemetery was just a stealth way to get a mosque built, or even an extremist training camp.

One person stated, “I do not want to be constantly in view of a mosque. I do not want my child to be indoctrinated toward their religion”, and also voiced her fear that, “We do not want this to be a Muslim dumping ground.”

Dumping ground?

I guess she is an example of the Christian attitude toward the dead.

It would be interesting to get the town’s take on Jehovah Witnesses and Mormons who come right to your door to see if you want their religion, and Baptists who approach you unbidden to see if you have accepted Jesus as your lord and savior.

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This was the reason for the expressed fear that deceased Muslims would be leaking into the water supply, poisoning the town- a type of posthumous attack on the good people by those evil Muslims, even though humanity has done quite well with all those bodies buried throughout history without coffins.

Besides having a bit of a problem with Muslims living in their community, they really don’t want dead ones buried there.

Some even suggested they if they “Take and dump pigs’ blood and put pig heads on a post. They won’t buy the land.”

Thank God people of the cloth are more reasonable.

Oh, wait.

According to David J. Meeks, pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, “The concern for us is the radical element of Islam. How can we stop a mosque or madrassa training center from going in there?”

Khalil Abdur-Rashid, a spokesman for the Islamic association, explained, “We want to be very clear that this is a cemetery”.

The mayor, Joe Helmberger believes, “There’s just a basic concern or distrust about the cemetery coming into town”.

He finds the residents’ concerns to be unwarranted, and believes the cemetery will be approved as long as the town’s development standards are met, pointing out that the US was founded on religious freedom and that the association is simply trying to secure a burial site.

The Muslims have assured the town they would follow the local regulations that apply to human burial.

Khalil Abdur-Rashid said shrouded bodies would be placed in caskets and entombed in vaults underground, as the plans for the cemetery have more to do with ‘human dignity’ than religion.

An irony of the opposition to this religion being able to bury its dead on 35 acres of land it owns was expressed by one resident who, while belonging to the religion that believes its religious beliefs should trump the law, wants the city council to check all its by-laws to find one that would prevent the cemetery saying, “there’s something about it that y’all are missing.”

Muslims must follow the laws that other religions can ignore.

Apparently there are limits to the freedom of religious beliefs.