Trump admin strengthens religious accommodations in federal workforce

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EXCLUSIVE: Trump admin strengthens religious accommodations in federal workforce

In his first week as head of President Donald Trump’s U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Scott Kupor issued new guidance to executive agency directors cracking down on religious discrimination.

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What are your thoughts on this? My thoughts are that many elements of religion are outdated and don't deserve protection. The idea of "religious freedom" is potentially oxymoronic, since in many cases, religion stifles freedom, and isn't compatible with liberal values which emphasize individual rights and freedoms.

My view is that many people arguing from a religious perspective also can't claim to be entitled to rights and freedoms under the law, since, traditionally, religions proceed Enlightenment-era values and religions or religious systems of government wouldn't allow conflicting beliefs (the type of government described in the Biblical Old Testament, for example, is an authoritarian, theocratic government, where conflicting beliefs would not have been allowed, and, under which contemporary notions of rights and freedoms didn't exist, such as their tolerance of slavery).

Trump may be attempting to cater to specific demographics here, but what I wish is that there was a way to avoid catering to the archaic, and for it to simply have to survive on its own merits.