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Of course religious freedom should be conserved. But religious freedom inlcudes all relgions. When a narrow subset of one religion starts making laws based on their interpretation of whatever, then it starts to impinge on others religious freedom. The way to alleviate this is to maintain a government based on secular values which do not favor one religion over another. As a religious person, or a non-religious person, you are then free to live your life as you wish as long as you do not violate any laws.

As far as I can see, the religious right joins with the conservative movement in general and the Republican party in particular (it’s in the GOP platform) in its efforts to overturn the liberal activist Roe vs Wade decision and restore to the states and the people their constitutional right to legislate or reinstate their own moral standards at the state level when it comes to abortion, murder, etc. The religious right also joins with the GOP in objecting to extra-constitutional gay rights and unconstitutional first amendment violating “thought crimes,” etc. Same goes for the general objections to the atheist effort to remove all mention of God, prayer, religious symbols, sayings, quotes, verses, etc from our public life. Again, just conserving our American heritage and traditional family values and constitutional freedoms. Other than that, I don’t see any great push to legislate Christianity or any other religion.

As a religious person, or a non-religious person, you are then free to live your life as you wish as long as you do not violate any laws. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HOW `BOUT A "SPESHUUL" Law For the Head-Huntin'Cannibals from New Guinea ?!?!?!?!...;0)

“When a narrow subset of one religion starts making laws based on their interpretation of whatever, then it starts to impinge on others religious freedom. The way to alleviate this is to maintain a government based on secular values which do not favor one religion over another.”

Your statement makes no sense, unless by “religion” you mean, for instance, the witchcraft beliefs of aborigines whose practices involve ritual sodomy, amputations, and cannibalism (thinking about Papua New Guinea). All monotheist religions, and Buddhism (I include Hinduism in the monotheist religions as that is my particular field of study) all have the same basic moral values based on religion.

For your statement to make sense you need to supply evidence supporting it. The sentence “When a narrow subset of one religion starts making laws based on their interpretation of whatever...” needs elucidating. What exactly do you mean?

Additionally, a government based on “secular values” is a government which is choosing atheism as the standard over relgious based values. The only system I can think of that has done that is Communism. And what are secular based values, anyway?