I understood the OP's point, but even if the two sentences mean the same thing to a particular faith-based group, we should take care to not to take on and spre

I understood the OP's point, but even if the two sentences mean the same thing to a particular faith-based group, we should take care to not to take on and spread that group's biases. Because the sentences absolutely are not the same. And especially, and most importantly, they aren't the same to the affected people, whose interests the "faith-based groups" (and in one word — bigots) purport to protect.