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Political ideology is rather highly hereditary, and if democracy benefits from a plurality of views, can you give a good reason why it shouldn't be protected? E
by Jach 9y ago
Political ideology is rather highly hereditary, and if democracy benefits from a plurality of views, can you give a good reason why it shouldn't be protected? Especially when religion is?
- danso 9y agoThe reasons for why religion was explicitly protected in the First Amendment have some historical and political complexities. But I don't believe the reasoning, at the time the Constitution was written, nor today, had anything to do with hereditary probability. But ignoring historical reasons and realities, the contemporary moral argument for why religion deserves more protection than political ideology is because political ideology can be expressed (and protected) through participating in the political process. Whereas being a member of a religion is not seen as necessarily a political activity, especially in religions that do not engage in the political process.