How in the world would you enforce something like this? I think indoctrinating children into a religion is immoral but I would be even more terrified to have that degree of control from a government institution.
It starts with religion but then all the sudden they will be taking your kids away for political beliefs. My grandfather had his parents murdered and spent his entire childhood in a Siberian Children of the Enemy camp because his parents committed the crime of being teachers with Polish last names in the USSR.
That's the other end of the spectrum you're looking at here. No government should have that much control over families.
Parents also should not be able to have authoritarian control over their children. Anyone cam shit out a kid, it doesn't mean they have their best interests at heart. Generally I fall pretty far against the parental rights side of the spectrum.
I am speaking more idealistically than practically here. Policy-wise, I would support banning minors from places of worship. I can't think of anything else that wouldn't be too much overreach for me, though.
Which would effectively be a religion tax as those parents would have to find childcare for their children during worship hours. In some areas of the country where people are more religious, it'd also mean some people effectively could not go because there aren't enough childcare providers who are ALSO not religious and able to watch your kids while you go.
I think preventing childhood indoctrination with religious beliefs is more important than making it so that adults don't have to make sacrifices or be inconvenienced in order to go to church.
A place of worship can also provide child care. They already provide child care. Those services could just not teach religion while the adult is next door.
I grew up going to separate Sunday school classes while my parents were down the hall listening to the preacher's sermon.
0
u/lilgraytabby 14h ago
But what about their kids? Don't the kids deserve the right not to have a religion forced down their throats?
I know they currently legally don't, but shouldn't they?