We need to enforce our freedom FROM religion and that may well mean a constitutional amendment. The recent attacks on science are only going to push this country back in terms of ingenuity and progress. We need to inform our decisions based in fact and evidence.

There are countless issues that have been muddied based in this one lack of freedom for Americans. Every day in school we are told to recognize God in our patriotism. When we are discussing our healthcare options our providers are using their own belief systems to inform our decisions. Even buying a cake becomes infinitely more complicated when a person values their beliefs over common decency. Religion has for far too long in this country and across the globe been used as a persuasion tool to convince everyday people to vote against their best interests and from gaining access to education, healthcare, and financial stability.

It is impossible to say how much this has incapacitated our society, because it is so deeply ingrained into systems making our "separation of church and state" a joke. At least one area that we have hard evidence, based on this study by the CDC, https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6516a1.htm is our downturn in teenage pregnancy. With the advent of the internet and the work of organizations like Planned Parenthood in educating the masses we have worked to keep girls in schools and give them more opportunities to succeed in the workforce. These are things that we should be striving to support instead the bankrolled church system has sent non-stop attacks towards these efforts. Please support our country in establishing a real hard line for innovation and growth and the protection of the rights of the vulnerable unreligious.