How does your WV inform your politics?

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It should be noted that those restrictions can and are also used to undermine democracy (Florida's education laws, for example).

That's why they need to be carefully formulated and not hijacked by religious people.  Ideally, religion should be weeded out of society altogether.  A long, slow process, no doubt.

I'm not a fan of using government to tell people what to feel, only to tell them how they ought to behave.

As for their being hijacked, in a democracy are those principles being hijacked if they enjoy popular support? I'd rather see a judicial branch that enforces the wall of separation we enjoy, rather than a legislature telling people what they can and cannot say. Once you allow government to decide what is and is not permissible speech, you've granted it a power that it will almost certainly abuse.