Minority religions exercising the same rights are routinely excluded from schools

Evidence

The schools could not slam their doors fast enough, throwing up a variety of procedural and legal hurdles. After news of their plan broke in the Washington Post, Satanic Temple leaders received multiple, often public, death threats. They weren’t the only other group operating from a “religious viewpoint” effectively shut out from public schools: Wiccans, atheists, Muslims, and other minority religious groups have attempted similar gambits and been excluded from the schools through a variety of means. These episodes are a stark reminder of what I have amply documented in my last book: when members of minority or unpopular religions seek to exercise their “rights” in the same way conservative Christians do, they are frequently prevented from doing so. Public school buildings are not, as it turns out, a “viewpoint-neutral” forum, open in practice to all religions regardless of rank or social status, as the Alliance Defending Freedom argues. “Religious liberty” in America today is largely religious liberty for certain “approved” groups. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 870

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on the pattern of religious liberty as privilege for one sanctioned creed from ch. 9. — connects to: Speech-based reasoning grants religion a unique super-category never excludable — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 868; The ACLU ignored a high-school discrimination case while the school dismissed Islamic observance — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 410; Racialization lets a faith community’s religious freedoms be circumscribed or denied — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 66 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The ACLU ignored a high-school discrimination case while the school dismissed Islamic observance #exemplifies (0.92) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 410
• School administrators accommodated observant Jewish and social events but not Muslim prayer #exemplifies (0.90) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 383
• Religious freedom protections remain racially constrained for Muslims #expands (0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 808
• Racialization lets a faith community’s religious freedoms be circumscribed or denied #complicates (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 66