Does Freedom of Religion Exist in the United States?

There is only one religious holiday a national holiday in the United States. Christmas Day. If that isn’t sponsoring a religion then what is it?

Up to the age of nine I attended Philadelphia public schools.  Every morning all the children attended an assembly.  After reciting the Pledge of Allegiance someone at the front of the auditorium read from the Christian bible.  There was a Christian song that all the children sang.  The problem was that I was not a Christian.  I kept my mouth shut unless someone came by my seat prompting me to sing.  My solution to that was to move my lips but not sing a single word.

Happily none of that happened in Los Angeles in the 4^th grade.

I remember this like it was yesterday.

Now the Supreme Court sees nothing wrong with conducting prayers on school grounds. The Supreme Court ruled on June 27 that a high school football coach had a constitutional right to pray at the 50-yard line after his team’s games, the latest step by the court in expanding the place of religion in public life. The vote was 6 to 3, with the court’s three liberal members in dissent.

Is it any wonder that some Americans have chosen to migrate to countries that respect the religious rights of all citizens?

Sofia Ali-Khan wrote an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times relating how she, a child of immigrant parents, could no longer live with the hate of minorities perpetrated by President Donald Trump.  She believes that to live in the States she would have to hide her Muslim identity.

The number of Americans seeking residency in Canada has grown exponentially.  No wonder.  Canada is a country that welcomes people of all faiths and races.

I can’t fight the system.  Perhaps it is time to follow Sofia Ali-Khan to Canada.