Today’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton is a direct blow to the free speech rights of adults. This ruling allows states to enact onerous age-verification rules that will block adults from accessing lawful speech, curtail their ability to be anonymous, and jeopardize their data security and privacy.
I still think that’s giving them a little too much credit and that religion is just a convenient excuse to hate people who are different.
That’s certainly what it was at first, but we’re talking about people who have been indoctrinated at birth for generations.
e: I strongly encourage you to watch some of their educational content. I won’t even try to guide you towards anything specific. Just any of it.
I was sent to a private Baptist school until I was in the sixth grade so I am all too familiar.
A very large faction has been weaponising that indoctrination against others, and it’s been increasingly effective.
I am heartened that it didn’t work on you.
If anything my experiences at that school sent me barrelling down a path towards atheism.