Thank you for the clarification.
I guess it was a matter of grammar.
To say 38 states are mandatory and the 22 remaining non-mandatory states sounds inaccurate.
Muchas gracias.
It is not religious persecution for an informed person to expose publicly a certain religion as being false, thus allowing persons to see the difference between false religion and true religion.
WT 11/15/1963 page 688 paragraph 3