I was looking through the news and I saw a old news article. This is when the State investigate the leaders of a certain religious group and the members hold a rally in front of the state building, shouting and exclaiming the separation of church and state (Like don't meddle with our problems). But the state has to respond because someone complaint about a crime that have been committed. What are your thoughts about this?
Lemme guess, you were thinking of the INC in the Philippines?
IMHO, the State should trump the Church when it comes to law. After all the Church is not the one providing security and law enforcement for the citizens. It irks me when mullahs can get away with molesting kids in madrasas, that priests get spirited away to a far away parish at the first whiff of a sexual abuse complaint, etc. The Church have no business telling the State how to run itself but the State have every right to monitor the Church because it tend to abuse whatever privilege it may have been given by the State (example, tax exemptions) - privileges they never deserved in the first place.