Grateful for the First Ammendment

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

From the WSJ:

"In August Beijing declared that reincarnated [Tibetan] lamas, or religious leaders, could be appointed only by Beijing's State Administration for Religious Affairs, not by other monks, as Tibet's brand of Buddhism dictates."

As my own church has only recently lost a beloved leader, I'm so grateful to be in the United States where the church can dictate church affairs and doesn't have to follow leaders a state bureaucracy chooses.