RIGHT OR WRONG? – ‘Religious People’ Should Stay Out of the Legislative Process
If you’ve been around Congress for any length of time, you’ve likely encountered this argument in one form or another – Religious people should stay out of the public square so they can’t impose their beliefs on everybody else.
Screenshot from Red Pen Logic.
There is a superficial logic to that assertion because, after all, religious faith is a deeply private matter and nobody should be able to impose their private morality on the rest of us. Besides, it must be true because that famous scientist, Richard Dawkins, said it!
Actually, no, it really is superficial, even coming from Dawkins. Because, as Red Pen Logic’s Tim Barnett points out in the following video, everybody has a “private morality,” and everybody in America gets a voice in the legislative process, either directly by getting themselves elected to Congress, or indirectly by voting for somebody else to represent them in Congress.
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“‘Religious people’ should keep their moral beliefs to themselves and not try in the Public Square to impose them on the rest of us. ”
…while they try to force their “morality’ (such as it is) on everyone else.
The law should reflect the principles and morality of the people it governs. The Bill of Rights are there to remind us of what was and is considered essential for a free society.