Religious minority assimilation can itself be achieved through constitutional rhetoric

Evidence

Because of its prominence in America’s national narrative, the politicization of religion has not been solely a means of exclusion; it has also served as a means of assimilation, at least for white non-Protestants. The First Amendment allows religious minorities to organize and to establish themselves locally in this country, long before they appear on the national radar. By the time their presence could be politicized as a subversive threat, they usually have developed enough roots and means in the United States to be able to defend themselves against such attacks, and they often do so by reading themselves into America’s political narrative in terms of constitutional freedoms. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 279

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ piece’s theme of how marginalized groups deploy majority frameworks to claim belonging — here via constitutional liberty rhetoric. — connects to: Defeated minorities accept majority rule through continued discursive hope, not conviction change — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 95