Put bluntly, America has a long way to go before she's discrimination-free. Not counting discrimination on the basis of race, sex, or sexual alignments, there's discrimination in America towards just about every religion present within, excluding Christianity.
As a brief summary, atheists are excluded from the Boy Scouts of America, and several courts have upheld this. Muslims face increasing discrimination in major metropolitan areas, largely originating from white evangelicals who don't know any Muslims, and violent crimes happen particularly frequently around presidential elections. Satirical religions, whose purpose is to create discussion and inspire critical thought of commonplace beliefs, often are subject to incomprehensible amounts of hate-mail and the creators of them often receive threats to life, limb, or property, be they directed at the creators or their loved ones. Jews have had the run of it through history, and it doesn't show any signs of stopping for them, with a recent year being the worst for them in the records of the Anti Defamation League, and a surprising increase in Neo-Nazism. See previous articles for further details. In spite of the general populace's desire for equality for all, the law doesn't actually doesn't provide any measures to prevent the spread of prejudiced beliefs on any count, though it does have provisions in place to prevent those prejudiced beliefs from having any further impact on people. For instance, one cannot discriminate in hiring and must accommodate religious practices whenever reasonable to do so. See previous posts for details. Perhaps, with luck, a little more time will breed more understanding. If understanding doesn’t kill the noxious weed of prejudice and discrimination, nothing will. Though all signs aren’t necessarily pointing up, if there’s one thing one learns in the mountains, it’s that for every downhill you descend, there is a longer, steeper uphill to climb later. With effort, we can hopefully pull ourselves up out of this rut in which our society finds the ability and willingness to overlook discrimination and prejudice.
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