i'm pretty sure it will end closed but, let me drop my 2 cents.
Offcourse! it's better to your self-motivation, spirit , karma, whatever.I love my religion, but sometimes when the religion demmand something trhought laws and politics, it's simply madness because we don't really need somebody to point the finger in your face saying what you can and can't do using the excuese of god's sake.
I think what you do it's just yours and god's buisness, and if you go to some religion center i'm pretty sure you want hear concils , and don't want anybody dictating your life.
IMO it's a retrograte let religion keep the finger in pollitics(even stimulating the mass like the media do today) ,because we had saw it in middle age, and we still watching it today.
no offense nobody,if somebody got offended just tell me, ok?
it's just what i think