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Yeah - I feel the same way about the Branch Davidian and Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints et al crowds - SOBs no matter their professed faiths. 
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Are you serious? How many of them are threatening our way of life? Gimme a break.
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So you have no qualms about the behavior of the likes of the groups I mentioned which all exhibit elements of particular interest regarding the subversion of American law for theologically claimed beliefs:
- The persistence of child marriage, which is made not only acceptable but commendable in their theologically based writings.
- The obvious disregard for the force of non-theological law when a practice is permissible under their particular beliefs.
- The attitude toward women as property whose rights are limited by the authority of men over them, which permeates their theological texts and teachings.
Personally - as I stated - I do have a problem with such behaviors no matter the basis for such beliefs.
But I am curious as to why anyone would find my position on such behavior questionable? 
Richard's $.02 
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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