[seebs]

I ran into a problem a while back which killed my notion that "religious beliefs" should not be a basis for public policy.

Specifically, I can't see a way to make people keep these out of their judgments. More interestingly, I'm not sure I should.

Let's say we grant that it is Not Good for a person with a religious worldview to impose the moral teachings of that worldview on us.

And yet, we tend to assume that it's acceptable to have SOME kind of worldview.

So. What kinds are okay? If we reject my belief that gay people should receive equal rights, because I believe God created all people morally equal, then should we accept someone else's belief that all people are inherently equal, and should have the same rights?

What makes one person's personal moral conclusions more valid than another? I don't think that considering them invalid if and only if they are based in religion is any better than considering them invalid if and only if they are not.