Parents should be barred from refusing life-saving care for children on religious grounds

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Minors should be allowed abortions without parental knowledge

U.S. universities have not made adequate progress in addressing antisemitism, since October 7, 2023

Smartphones should be banned in schools

The Catholic Church should ordain women as priests

Religious beliefs should have no influence on legislation

Parents should let children walk to school without adult supervision

Homeschooling provides an education as good as US public schooling

Religious communities should be allowed to socially shun people who leave the faith

Mature minors should be allowed to make their own medical decisions

Acts God commands are morally right even if they cause innocent suffering

Employers should be required to accommodate religious observance absent substantial hardship

Moral disagreement between religions undermines their claim to divine authority

Blasphemy laws should be abolished

State-funded schools should not provide religious instruction

Religious leaders should keep confessions confidential even when they disclose child abuse

Catholic priests should be allowed to marry

Religious experience can justify belief in God without publicly testable evidence

Criticizing religious beliefs should never be considered hate speech

Children should not be raised religious

Medicare for All is a viable solution to the U.S. healthcare crisis

A single-payer system could address rising medical costs and expand coverage to all Americans.