Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty Clashes in the U.S.: (An American Constitutional Challenge)

This involves recent attacks on religious liberty, or even religious viewpoints in the West (particularly in America), but not by a majority religion against a minority religion, viz, not of one conventional religion against another; rather, this is about the attack of secularism and atheism in the West (particularly in America) against people of faith (particularly Christians). While in the East and Asia much of the religious persecution we hear about in the news is of a dominant religion (say Islam, in some places), against minority religions (i.e., Christianity), the issue in much of the West is very different, and centers around attacks and hostility of secular humanists in all walks of life against people of faith. In America, this is especially reflected against Christians. The battle lines are sharply drawn in the social contest over same-sex marriage (SSM).In this article, I assume that secular humanism itself, including its undergirding atheism, is really also a religion of sorts, and so this topic is in some ways an issue about the persecution of one religion against another. This is because secular humanism, including its atheistic underlying worldview, is really a belief system all by itself. I thus assail in this paper the incorrect view that secularism is somehow “neutral,” and thus can be trusted, while conventional religions like Christianity, cannot (some say these are “biased”).