TagliatelliMonster
Veteran Member
Religious freedom is too often used as an excuse to engage in behavior that puts others at risk (i.e. not vaccinating your children) and as an excuse for bigotry and prejudice towards minorities. While religious freedom is a vital cornerstone for a free society, it also must clearly have limits. So my question is what are those limits?
As always in matters of "freedom": your rights end where the rights of others begin.
So, not vaccinating children for religious reasons is imo already a breach thereof when it concerns "mandatory" vaccinations. Not sure how that stuff works in the US, but over here in Belgium, quite a few vaccines are mandatory. And rightfully so. Religious superstition does not trump secular law.
As for discrimination or other forms of "oppression" towards minorities: that too, is a matter of rights of those minorities. Here too, the same applies: your rights end where the rights of others begin.