Are there any religious rituals that are illegal despite the guarantee of Free Exercise in the US Constitution?

Animal sacrifice and sex with underage children, while part of the practices of some small denominations, is illegal.

However, I would note that certain sorts of drug use, including ingestion of peyote, has been cleared as legal by the courts within strict religious limits.

Use of certain illegal substances, animal sacrifice (unless I suppose the animal was being slaughtered for food), human sacrifice, and certain dealings with fire. For example, if there's a no burn order due to drought, I seriously doubt you'd be allowed to kindle a bonfire or outdoor blaze even as part of a religious ritual.

It's ok to pass laws that have an incidental effect of prohibiting certain religious practices as long as the law wasn't specifically designed to "go after" religious adherents, and as long as the law passes the strict scrutiny test (the strongest type of test that laws have to satisfy, used when deciding if a law improperly discriminates on the basis of race, national origin, religion). The law has to be:

* justified by a compelling governmental interest,

* narrowly tailored to achieve this goal,

* the least restrictive means for achieving that interest.

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For a long period of time, the US government banned the Lakota Sioux Sun Dance, and Ghost Dance.

I'm not sure when that changed, but now they can practice their religion freely, as they should be

The old testament calls for animal sacrifices.

Pew Pew is spewing lies. Satanism follows all laws.

A biggie is that while adults in snake handling congregations are allowed to handle snakes, youth below the age where they are judged to be able to give informed consent are not, even with parental consent.

Misread the question.

I'm sure there are some rituals that are illegal as already mentioned above me.

A form of Satanism requires a human sacrifice. Usually they kill small babies or someone volunteers to get torched. That is outlawed. Oh, so is the KKK

Things like

- religious prostitution

- religious use of illegal drugs (legal only in one instance as far as I know)

- polygamy

- child marriage

- Jim, http://www.bible-reviews.com/