'Religious liberty' includes the freedom of communities to impose their own moral judgments & social norms. 'Equal protection under the law' means everyone must be immune to those judgments & norms. There is no credible way to reconcile these conflicting principles. Never was.
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You know how we redefined a kilogram from to "6.626,070,15 × 10-34 kg m2 s–1", divorcing the standard from being mutable matter to pure maths? We need a universal constant that creates a standard of justice that divorces law from religion.
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That would be nice. But I doubt that human moral instincts can be systematized into quantifiable law; because they didn't evolve to be logically consistent, only to be socially adaptive.
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