...on the rest of the populace is not the sole proprietorship of religion. It's a function of people being a7's. Religion is simply used as a tool to accomplish that goal (all too often in my book).
All I'm saying is that people can put forward their belief that, say, prostitution is not morally wrong or degrading to women and get it incorporated into law, but people cannot put forward their belief that, say, killing an unborn child simply for the sake of convenience is morally wrong because the concept has religious undertones and religion in law isn't allowed.
Don't get too wrapped up in my examples. I'm not trying to make statements about those particular topics. I'm more arguing the semantics of the two situations.
On a completely different sideline, the part of the Kansas BoE ruling that's actually GOOD news is that their ID decision isn't binding on any of the local school districts. They're all able to set their own curriculums despite what the state level BoE said. It's still bad that the state BoE did what they did, but at least it's not mandatory. That part doesn't come out in the news.
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