I love this as a "society hack."
Write exceptions for religious sacraments into law? Outlaw abortion ostensibly as a secular matter? Fine, abortion is now a sacrament for our religion.
It forces a dillema upon courts and the state:
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Tolerate a legal loophole for abortion, which may spread out of control.
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Write in more specific exceptions to religeous freedom, and open a legal can of worms with the Constitution.
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Explicitly codify the law for "recognized" religions like specific forms of Christianity, instead of doing it with a wink an a nod while acting like its for all religions. This is also a can of worms.
I didn't know about this aspect of the Satanic Temple until this year, and now I absolutely love it. It makes me want to join, if only to throw a monkey wrench in the aspects of religion that have crept into law.