I agree we should respect secular ethical choices with the same protections as religious ones, but this is currently an aspirational goal in the US. For now to get acceptance and strong legal protection of ethical choices we sort of have to wrap them in a religious shroud since that is the framework the state has to deal with protecting such choices. The issue with this is that your choices might not align perfectly with the options you have and people will say it’s not a real religion if you are the only practitioner. Maybe a workaround would be to take a dead christian denomination and use that? Other religions wouldn’t get easy acceptance here.
Wondering what if anything you thought of that story of
the woman who claimed a religious objection to using
Microsoft?
(Perhaps you can read my article and follow the links to the original
story... I also wonder if this would fly in Britain and think about
talking to church ministers about it. I deeply and sincerely cannot
bring myself to enrich these crooked bastards, but I feel
uncomfortable "cloaking" that in religion even though it may inform my
ethics. hope that makes sense)
