Opposition to religion goes beyond preventing coercion. The Freedom from Religion Foundation, at least, wants to ban even voluntary prayer wherever they can see it. Thanks to them, Clay County, Florida, has banned morning prayer sessions at school flagpoles.
Alas, this is hardly atypical, and it got me thinking. If religion is going to be completely banned from the public square (not to say that that is going to happen, but it’s clearly what the militant atheists want), it’s another argument against having a public square. Privatize everything, and then free people can decide what free people will do. Religious people will frequent establishments that allow prayer, and militant atheists can stick to ones that ban it.
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