Thanks Kimberlee, as a devoted Yoga student and a self-proclaimed Christian, I have always had respect and interest in all religions. I am also apalled at some of the things that people do under the banner of religion to justify their own ignorance, bigotry, and crazy superstitions. I agree that the different cultures, throughout history, had made some of these rules, not God, or their perception of God. I had actually whitnessed a similar tragedy, to the one regarding the woman from India, in our own back yard. My Dad has been a deacon at a Baptist Church for the past twenty years(I was actually raised as an Espicopalian at the request of my Grandmother, and I currently attend a non-denominational church). I recall, when I was in High School, twenty years ago, that their was a member of my dad's church choir, who had attended that church for a few years, who came out and announced that he had the "HIV" virus, and that he was gay. He was still attending my dad's church, but only my family, the pastor's family, and one other family would let him sit in the same pew, as he did not have the energy to sing anymore. I was appalled that ninety-percent of that Church, treated this man like an out-cast or a misfit, and that some people were willing to let him die like an animal. While, the pastor openly did not agree with his lifestyle, he was not about to let this man die unloved and lonely. The pastor had tried very hard to make the rest of the congregation accept him and love him, but very few members of the congregation were willing to embrace him. No one diserves to be treated this way. I have always grown up believing that God is Love, but there have been just too many hypocrites in every culture.