"Mmm... that's a moot point.  There are minor restrictions, adjudicated.  A church usually can't charge a fee for fortune telling or calling up spirits of the dead but it can accept offerings... and then let custom make the 'offerings' become fees in fact.  Human sacrifice is illegal everywhere - but I'm by no means sure that it is not still done in several spots around the globe - and probably right here in this former land of the free and home of the brave.  The way to do anything under the guise of religion that would otherwise be suppressed is to do it in the inner sanctum and keep the gentiles out.  Why, Ben?  Is Mike doing something that might get him jailed or hanged?"