Can't speak for all liberals. But my objection to the religious right hasn't ever been how they choose to live their private lives. I think their ideas about everything are a real bummer, but it's not for me to say if you want to impose that meshugas on yourself.
I do, though, strenuously object to their attempts to impose their religious notions in common areas of public life and -- now -- even to dictate how others live their private lives.
That's the difference. There's no bothsidery here.
Jesus spoke of a narrow gate few will enter -- not herding everyone through it.
The the first line of the First Amendment of the Constitution explicitly bans the establishment of a state religion.
What we know for fact is that the religious right has terrible reading comprehension skills -- or doesn't actually respect the documents they supposedly hold so sacred.
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There is a common misconception that the metaphor "separation of church & state" was meant to prevent religion from interfering with state affairs. It is in fact THE OTHER WAY AROUND. Thomas Jefferson, as with James Madison, posit that religious liberty required the establishment of a "wall of separation between the church & state” and that "any government involvement in the church would corrupt the church." Gov't should NOT interfere w/ religious freedom.
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/885/establishment-clause-separation-of-church-and-state
I'm a lefty atheist. Everybody is guided in their political views by their morals/worldview. The problem with fundamentalist religion is that it leaves no room for argument and compromise, which are essential in building a civic structure we can all endorse and whose outcomes we can all accept.
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