How does your WV inform your politics?

[FrustratedFool]

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.

Most of Europe has hatespeech laws. Seems to work OK.