Intentional conflation

‘In God We Trust’ - the bills Christian nationalists hope will ‘protect religious freedom’

The left media and pundits seem to have committed to intentional conflation of measures to prevent people being compelled to do what they are not obliged to do for any particular reason and in violation of their religious moral views with other measures to enlist the state in encouraging or even teaching religious views.

Who would make kosher butchers sell pork?

Or vegetarian restaurants offer ribs and steaks?

Why, then, compel hospitals or medical professionals to provide or perform abortions, contrary to their religion?

On the other hand, allowing employers to provide insurance to employees without contraceptive coverage under cover of the claim this is about the employers' religious freedom is absurd.

The employer's objection here is not that he is being compelled, say, to use contraception but that he is being required to provide others the means or opportunity to do so, should they so choose.

But people are compelled to provide others such means or such opportunities by their employers or simply by their obligation to pay taxes all the time.

You may truly say they are not compelled to work for those employers.

But they are compelled to pay taxes.

An orthodox Jew employed as a waiter at TGI Friday's will have to deliver ribs to the table, and if he is employed as a cook he will likely have to cook them.

Religious pacifists pay taxes that support wars, and Christian anarchists pay taxes that support government.

And, really, isn't it contrary to the establishment clause, at least in spirit, to privilege religious views or religion based moral views over purely secular views or preferences?

Nobody seems ever to think there might be an issue of freedom for people whose views are not religion based.

Or, at any rate, no Republican and no conservative ever seems to think so, or even ever so slightly to care.