Hey Euph !! S'good ta see ya again !!
I can answer this for ya, if ya don mind. They (Christmas trees) are mistakenly regarded as secular as they are a holiday tradition with loose ties to actual Christian ritual and religious tradition. Actually though they are a pagan hold over, as I'm sure you already know but just to reiterate for all concerned, so they really aren't "secular."
Prohibition allowed wine to be bought for Catholic Communion. No one of any other faith was allowed to taste the forbidden fruit.
The religious practices regarding Peyote and Pot are illegal for the American Indian. 6 or so thousands years of a belief and practice down the drain..
Mormon tradition allows marriage to a girl at the age of 13. Illegal
Circumcision of male infants is allowed. Jewish and Christians do it.
Circumcision of girl baby's is Illegal. Muslim.do it.
The nuance of a Muslim Temple with loud speakers blasting out 5 times a day for their call to prayer is legal.
Christian church bells rung just once a week for call to prayer are in some towns considered a nuisance.
Getting a photo ID for a woman wearing a face mask is difficult. Muslim folk are pushing for the right.
Taking your children at age 10-17 to a so called religious nudest colony is legal, allowing them to run about naked in their back yard is illegal. Taking pictures of these kids at a so called religious nudist colony is legal, taking pictures of these kids taking a bath at home is illegal.
Public schools that use corporal punishment to the kids, is illegal, religious schooling can beat the tar out of the kids.
Now we come to the goodie, Doctors and Nurses at a religious run hospital can legally refuse to do abortions. All other hospitals must give this service on demand. Who was the idiot who said people of the Catholic faith need to work in another job besides health care if they had to refuse to do as told for issues of faith.? Or YAH, that crazy woman that has no morality herself. Someone had no problem doing a lobotomy on the Kennedy daughter.
If anyone thinks that religion, yours, mine and the people next door has no say in our laws are deluding yourself, it comes creeping in the back door.
Parents of some Christian Demonation that believes in prayer to solve medical problems have been known to themselves to go to a doctor but when their children become ill, they with hold medication and or surgery from them as the child slowly dies. Dastardly actions and the parents get a slap on the wrist. Poor folks just lost a child due to their religious faith. they have suffered enough.
Those poor Hog farmers that had a farm in the Midwest for 6 generations that had to grapple with the problem that a Muslem Temple had bought the land next to there's and sued them to stop operations as it offended them. Man if this was me I would have a portable Hog cooker and every night move that darn thing so the wind was in their direction and make pork rinds, oh the smell is so good.
What next, you have the Virgin Mary in a bath tub in your garden, or a 4 foot Buddha in a Japanese garden and the neighbors are offended.?
Do you really have to give up the money for the kids education for a lawyer to get the ass hat off your case.
BLUE laws are still around and thriving in parts of this country. Each state is allowed to make its own laws. Unfortunately the religious are the ones that turn out in droves to pass laws that go with their beliefs.
Every day we are are confronted with laws and policies that are made by people not of our faith but theres. In a way I can understand the Atheist jumping on the silly problem of a stamp.
