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Comment by rafram

That’s not true at all. Many of the most famous religious accommodations in the US are things that mainstream Christians find illogical/absurd:

- Sikhs keeping long hair/beard in the military or police

- Quakers being exempt from the draft

- Quakers, again, refusing to drive with NH plates that say “live free or die,” because they don’t believe that

- Muslims needing breaks to pray 5x/day

- Jews requiring food that follows extremely complex kosher preparation rules

- Native Americans using peyote, a hallucinogen

- Jehovah’s Witnesses and others refusing to swear oaths, even in court

Of course many of these had to be fought for in court, but courts are very amenable to the earnestly held beliefs of minority religious groups in the US. We don’t have a state religion.

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