free exercise

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• SOURCE: Salon
  1/7/2022
  

  Secularism: The Essential, Fatally Weak Guardrail of Democracy

  by Jacques Berlinerblau

  The framers of the US Constitiution failed to build in the protections against religious belief overpowering the rights of others or the security of the state that Locke and other political theorists thought were urgently necessary. This oversight might imperil democracy.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/14/2021
  

  The Sleeper SCOTUS Case that Threatens Church-State Separation

  by Kimberly Wehle

  "If the plaintiffs win, states and municipalities could be required to use taxpayer dollars to supplement strands of private religious education that many Americans would find deeply offensive, including schools that exclude non-Christian or LGBTQ students, families, and teachers."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/1/2020
  

  Religious Animus Did Not Drive The Laws The Supreme Court Just Overturned

  by Adam Laats

  Historical restrictions against "sectarian" use of tax dollars used the term broadly to encompass many religious doctrines. Claims that the laws were based in anti-Catholic bigotry are inaccurate.