Applying the Legal Principle

• Competent adults should be allowed to peacefully exercise their religious views, whether they adhere to a majority religion or a minority religion, without interference from anyone. Likewise, atheists, agnostics, and other nonbelievers also have an absolute right to reject and be free from all religions entirely.
• The law should never permit anyone to violate the Legal Principle for any reason, including religious or non-religious ones.
• People of faith and people of no faith should be treated equally under the law. No special rights should exist for any person, group, corporation, or government. Our goal should always be to enforce the Legal Principle justly, reasonably, and fairly while always affording due process.
• The government’s role is not to mandate or even send messages regarding what to believe or how to run our lives properly. The entire issue of the separation of church and state becomes mostly irrelevant if we adhere to the Legal Principle.
• On private property, religious people and nonbelievers alike are free to enforce their religion’s rules, erect religious displays, entirely ban religion, or anything in between.

Applying the Aspirational Values

• Tolerance and mutual respect for the views of others are prerequisites for any effective exchange of ideas and discussion on this subject.