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Religious law can never truly speak to all people where everyone gets the same rules. Religious law is about inclusion and exclusion.
Secular law speaks to an entire population and provides and avenue for redress without qualification.
Indeed, by design morality is a contrivance in both religious law and secular law.
Secular law is also about inclusion and exclusion -- rules for citizens and non-citizens, or lawful subgroups and those beyond the law (felons can't vote I believe).
But do you think that there is a transcendent morality which, if not god-based is somehow innate and encoded in our genetic make up?
Is man's state of nature infused with any moral law or is it all construct?
Secular law includes all those entities you have mentioned, religious law does not apply to all in a land ruled by a secular society. However, in the US those religious laws are recognized and respected as they pertain to the religious sect in that closed society not the general populace.
Morality is not "encoded" in our genetic make up, but, a is based on necessity for which rules are made for various situations based on the needs of society.