America's religion can be defined as its sacred symbols and mythology, which have a Christian substrate

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The Catholic Church should ordain women as priests

Religious beliefs should have no influence on legislation

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

Employers should be required to accommodate religious observance absent substantial hardship

Monuments honoring slaveholders should be removed from public squares

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

Criticizing religious beliefs should never be considered hate speech

Children should not be raised religious

Christianity enjoys a favored status in American culture

Public schools should allow students to wear religious clothing despite uniform rules

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

Religious organizations should receive no tax exemptions denied to secular organizations

Governments should ban religious slaughter without prior stunning

Religious schools should be required to teach scientific accounts of evolution

Religious communities should be allowed to exclude members who publicly leave the faith

A protest at a church in Minnesota was hostile to an employee's job, not to Christianity itself

Reactions to public discussions of Christianity vary depending on geographical location