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There Should Not Be “Religious Exemptions” To Laws (www.currentaffairs.org)

submitted 1 year ago by OneRedFox@beehaw.org to c/socialism@beehaw.org

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If a law should apply, it should apply regardless of how people feel about following it. If the law infringes on liberty, it should be repealed.

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[–] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

So we should be able to force Muslim and Jewish inmates to eat pork in prison simply because that was the cheapest thing the state could foist on them that week?

Quakers and Mennonites should be forced to sign up for the draft?

I don’t think as much actual policy is based on rationality, science, and evidence as you think it is. Even the non-religious exemption stuff.