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I think most of these people are more than likely religious and I think that they feel like if religion goes away then somehow it takes away from their beliefs and their comfort in the afterlife and I feel like they feel that, it’s being infringed upon.

So you’re saying people feel like if their religion is taken away it takes away from their beliefs and they feel like their beliefs are being infringed upon? Astute observation. Astute. I remember when my bike was stolen as a kid. It felt like it somehow took away from my bicycle riding. I’d go so far as to say it felt like my bicycle riding was infringed upon. Little did I know I was just an ignorant old man before my time.

A bike is a material possession...faith is possessed in the heart and the mind of the faithful. That can not be taken away or infringed upon in any manner. Expressing that faith can but it can not be removed from the heart and mind of the faithful.

History is replete with examples of attempts to strip people of their faith and many people whose faith was wonting have seen their faith destroyed....but may never succomb to it and many find their faith strengthened by it. This is why I, and many people like me I would bet, suspect the faith of someone who would suggest that their God can be banned from a public school, for example. It is not possible to beat the faith out the truly faithful. You can't prohibit a God from anything if there are people allowed because people of faith carry their god with them in their hearts and minds. They simply can not be shaken in their faith. I am certain they can experience crisis of faith but it can not be forced out of them....they may well give up on it....but that is their doing, not anyone else's. Suggesting otherwise cheapens faith to a human level, a tangible, physical possession of no more importance at the end of life than a cadilac or a gold bar, the the dead. I am an agnostic who does not believe in God (I am not arrogant and do not state I know there is no God as an atheist does only that I have no faith there is) and I find true faith about as admirable a quality in a person as anything I can imagine....but faith that is akin to a material possession and is held with facts is no longer faith, it is a truth.